The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday, April 3, a total of 1,721 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 246 which is 33 percent higher than the cases on March 20 to March 26.
DOH recorded 13 more individuals tagged under severe and critical cases. Currently, there are 347 severe and critical admissions which is 9.3 percent of total Covid-19 admissions.
On the other hand, 271 out of 1,984 or 13.7 percent of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are being used, while 2,626 out of 15,936 or 16.5 percent of non-ICU beds are being utilized.
Meanwhile, DOH also verified 58 more deaths due to Covid-19 during the past week. It mentioned that no deaths occurred from March 20 to April 2.
Of the 58 deaths, one occurred in October 2022, one in March 2022, six in February 2022, six in January 2022, five in October 2021, nine in September 2021, seven in August 2021, four in July 2021, two in June 2021, three in May 2021, nine in April 2021, two in March 2021, one in February 2021, one in November 2020, and one in October 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.