The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, March 27, a total of 1,298 new Covid-19 cases that were recorded in the past week.
In its weekly case bulletin, DOH said that the daily average cases are currently at 185 which is 11 percent lower than the cases on March 13 to March 19.
DOH recorded 10 more individuals tagged under severe and critical cases. Currently, there are 307 severe and critical admissions which is 8.4 percent of total Covid-19 admissions.
On the other hand, 285 out of 2,041 or 14.0 percent of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are being used, while 2,690 out of 16,335 or 16.5 percent of non-ICU beds are being utilized.
Meanwhile, DOH also verified 60 more deaths due to Covid-19 during the past week. It mentioned that no deaths occurred from March 13 to March 26.
Of the 60 deaths, one occurred in November 2022, one in October 2022, one in March 2022, five in February 2022, eight in January 2022, one in December 2021, two in November 2021, 10 in October 2021, three in September 2021, 11 in August 2021, two in July 2021, two in June 2021, two in May 2021, three in April 2021, three in March 2021, one in February 2021, one in November 2020, one in October 2020, one in August 2020, and one in June 2020.
In terms of Covid-19 vaccination, DOH stated that due to ongoing migration of the Vaccine Information Management System (VIMS) by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the DOH-Epidemiology Bureau will not be able to generate updated vaccine accomplishment until said migration has been resolved.