The Department of Health (DOH) reported 3,574 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Tuesday, Feb. 8.

This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases to 3,619,633 since the onset of the pandemic. Of this, 2.9 percent are active cases at 105,550.
Among the active cases, DOH said that 95.5 percent are mild and asymptomatic. According to the case bulletin, 96,722 are mild; 4,059 are asymptomatic; 3,007 are moderate; 1,446 are servere and 316 are in critical condition.
The health department also reported 14,644 new recoveries bringing the total number to 3,459,462 or 95.6 percent while 83 more people have died from COVID-19 bringing the death toll to 54,621 or 1.51 percent of the total cases.
DOH said that of the 3,574 reported cases, 3,116 or 87 percent occurred within the recent 14 days from Jan, 26 to Feb. 8. The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were the National Capital Region (528 or 17 percent), Region 6 (357 or 11 percent) and Region 7 (308 or 10 percent).
It added that all labs were operational on February 6, 2022. However 6 labs were not able to submit their data to the COVID-19 Document Repository System (CDRS).
Meanwhile, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said during the DOH's media forum that the country remains to be at moderate risk classification with a 22.2 percent case positivity rate.
National average daily cases last week was lower by 52 percent than cases the previous week as daily positive cases are showing a slow decline. However, cases in regions outside NCR are still high.
She also mentioned in her presentation that from the peak of admissions in Jan. 22, the country's total bed utilization rate has declined by 15 percent and is now at low-risk classification at 37 percent.