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21.8K new infections and 616 new recoveries were recorded by PH.

The number of new coronavirus infections in the country has risen again, with 21,819 new cases reported on Friday.

The Department of Health (DOH) reported in its Covid-19 bulletin that this brought the total number of active cases to 77,369, out of a total of 2,910,664 confirmed infections since the pandemic began in March 2020.

On Friday, the number of new illnesses surpassed Thursday’s total of 17,220.

Meanwhile, 973 additional illnesses were recovered, bringing the total number of infections recovered to 2,781,424, or 95.6 percent of all known cases.

It added that 99 percent of the new cases, or 21,656, happened between December 25 and January 7, with the National Capital Region (NCR) reporting the most infections at 13,634 or 63 percent, Region 4A at 4,129 or 19 percent, and Region 3 at 2,084 or 10%.

The majority of active cases (70,321) have mild symptoms, followed by those with moderate symptoms (2,837), asymptomatic (2,438), severe symptoms (1,461), and those in critical condition (312).

Another 129 deaths have been reported, bringing the total number of Covid-19 deaths in the country to 51,871 or 1.78 percent of all infections.

The country’s health-care usage rate is still low, with 3,500 ICU beds at 32 percent occupancy, 19,500 isolation beds at 35 percent occupancy, 12,500 ward beds at 31 percent occupancy, and 14 percent of 2,900 ventilators in use.

There are 1,200 beds in the NCR with a 48 percent occupancy rate, 4,800 isolation beds with a 47 percent occupancy rate, 3,900 ward beds with a 59 percent occupancy rate, and 20% of 1,000 ventilators in use.

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