6.7K new recoveries, Covid-19 daily tests reach 70K: DOH

MANILA – A total of 6,771 individuals have recovered from the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on Friday, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,741,089.

In its daily Covid-19 bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) said this is equivalent to a 90.8-percent recovery rate out of a total of 1,916,461 infections since the start of the pandemic.

The DOH added that the number of Covid-19 tests it has administered on Wednesday — the data of which was released on Friday — have reached 70,396, with 26.1 percent returning positive with Covid-19.

The country also recorded another 17,447 new infections, bringing the number of active cases to 142,531 or 7.4 percent of all known infections in the country.

Of these active cases, the majority at 96.2 percent have mild symptoms, followed by the asymptomatic and those with severe symptoms at 1.1 percent each, those with moderate symptoms at 0.96 percent, and those in critical condition at 0.6 percent.

It reported 113 new deaths, bringing the total number to 32,841 or 1.71 percent of all cases in the country.

In the National Capital Region (NCR), there are 1,400 beds at intensive care units (ICU) at 75 percent occupancy, 4,700 isolation beds at 62 percent occupancy, 4,200 ward beds at 73 percent occupancy, and 59 percent of its 1,200 ventilators are in use.

In the entire country, there are 4,200 ICU beds 75 percent occupancy, 20,400 isolation beds at 62 percent occupancy, 14,800 ward beds at 69 percent occupancy, and 53 percent of its 3,200 ventilators are in use.