The Philippines posted 8,361 more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Sunday, Feb. 6.
This was the sixth day in a row that the country has recorded below 10,000 cases since it experienced a surge in infections last January---which was driven by the Omicron coronavirus variant.
Based on the latest case bulletin, the number of active cases nationwide or patients still sick was at 126,227.
Most of these cases or 116,598 have mild symptoms, 4,864 are asymptomatic, 3,008 are moderate, 1,447 are severe, and 310 are in critical status.
The DOH also logged 312 new fatalities, raising the COVID-19 death count to 54,526.
Another 18,431 patients have recuperated. This figure brought the recovery tally to 3,428,815.
All laboratories were operational. However, two failed to submit their data to the DOH's COVID-19 Document Repository System, the agency said.
Since the start of the pandemic, the Philippines has already recorded 3,609,568 confirmed COVID-19 cases.