Daily average COVID cases lower by 24% compared to previous week

By Ma. Teresa Montemayor | Philippine News Agency

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday (March 28) reported that the daily average COVID-19 cases of 389 from March 21 to 27 is 24% lower than the new infections prior to the week in review.

In its latest case bulletin, the DOH said there are 2,726 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for the recent week.

For the same period, there were no cases added to the tally of severe and critical infections which stood at 758.

Only 16.7% or 4,613 out of the 27,547 intensive care unit (ICU) beds in the country are used while 15.1% or 484 of 3,204 non-ICU beds are utilized.

Meanwhile, there were 655 verified deaths recorded during the past week.

𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊: As of March 21-27, the DOH reported 2,726 new COVID-19 cases with 389 average cases per day. There were no severe and critical cases while 752 have died.

1/3 pic.twitter.com/Ik1F9oGcZh

— PTVph (@PTVph) March 28, 2022

About 72.93% of the country’s target population has been vaccinated against COVID-19.

The DOH also reported 75.56% of the senior citizens have been inoculated against the disease.

The elderly group is composed of 8,721,357 individuals while the country’s target population for inoculation is 80% (90,005,357 individuals) of the country’s entire population.

As of March 27, DOH data showed 65,640,834 individuals are fully vaccinated while 11,825,403 people have received their booster shots. (PNA)

–ag