The daily average number of new COVID-19 cases climbed to 278 during Holy Week, up by 13 percent compared to the previous week’s 246 cases a day. | dpazzibuganINQ /PDI
While confirmed cases continued to go up, the healthcare utilization rate showing the occupancy of hospital beds dedicated to COVID-19 patients remained below 20 percent or at low risk.
An additional 30 deaths were confirmed, although most of these occurred in 2021. This brought the country’s official COVID-19 death toll to 66,420 out of 4,083,678 confirmed cases since the pandemic began three years ago.The number of newly detected COVID-19 infections has been rising in the past weeks, with the country recording its biggest hike on March 24 with 311 cases. This was a significant increase compared to 137 cases from the day before.
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