The Department of Health reported 2,010 fresh coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Tuesday, Feb. 15, the lowest daily count for the year so far.

This was the lowest daily tally recorded by DOH, the last was on Dec. 30, 2021 when it reported 1,153 new cases. It was also during the point that cases were beginning to increase.
Tuesday's case bulletin brings the total number of cases to 3,641,940 since the beginning of the pandemic. Active cases continue to decline and stood at 72,305 or 2 percent of the total number of cases with 93.5 percent of them considered to be mild and asymptomatic, according to DOH.
Among the active cases, 66,093 are mild; 2,961 are moderate; 1,498 are asymptomatic; 1,441 are severe; while 312 are in critical condition.
DOH said that of the 2,010 reported cases, 1,570 or 78 percent occurred within the recent 14 days from Feb. 2 to Feb. 15. The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were NCR with 238 or 15 percent; Region 4-A with 183 or 12 percent and Region 6 with 159 or 10 percent.
The agency mentioned that all labs were operational on Feb. 13. However 5 labs were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS).
On the other hand, DOH also reported 6,293 new recoveries bringing the total to 3,514,489 or 96.5 percent of total cases while 52 more have died from COVID-19 bringing the death toll to 55,146 or 1.51 percent of the total number of cases.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire during a Palace press briefing said that the public's compliance with the minimum health and safety protocols as well as high vaccination rates contribute to the country's steady decline in new COVID-19 cases and in managing the national health systems capacity.