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Philippines tallies 1,012 new COVID cases, 85 deaths in past week

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="A woman passes by a store at predominantly Muslim community Barangay Culiat in Quezon City on Feb. 1, 2023. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/news/02/06/20230131-world-hijab-day-mt-3.jpg"/><figcaption>A woman passes by a store at predominantly Muslim community Barangay Culiat in Quezon City on Feb. 1, 2023. <em>Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA (<strong>UPDATE</strong>) — The Philippines recorded 1,012 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, the Department of Health said Monday. </p><p>From Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, an average of 145 daily infections were recorded in the country, which is 16 percent lower compared to the <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/30/23/ph-logs-1206-new-covid-cases-74-deaths-in-past-week">previous week</a>.</p><p>This is the lowest number of weekly cases in 34 weeks or since the week of June 6 to 12, 2022, when the DOH logged 1,658 cases, according to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.</p><p>This is also the sixth straight week with weekly cases below 5,000, ABS-CBN IRG added.</p><p>Of the new infections during the week, no case was considered severe or critical, according to the DOH&#x27;s latest bulletin.</p><p>As of Sunday, 388 cases or 9 percent of total COVID-19 admissions were in severe and critical condition, the agency said.</p><p>At least 288 or 14.2 percent of intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 patients were occupied. The non-ICU bed utilization rate was at 19.6 percent.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/02/23/doh-to-prioritize-vulnerable-groups-in-bivalent-jabs">DOH to prioritize health workers, seniors, immunocompromised in bivalent jabs</a></li></ul><p>During the past week, the DOH also verified 85 more COVID-related fatalities, citing late encoding of death information.</p><p>This week&#x27;s number of deaths is 15 percent higher, or 11 deaths more, than the previous week.</p><p>As of Feb. 5, the Philippines has 9,378 active COVID-19 cases.</p><p>Since the pandemic, the country has recorded 4,073,826 infections, of which more than 65,851 led to deaths. </p><p>To date, around 73.8 million Filipinos are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.</p><p>Of the figure, some 21.3 million have received first boosters while more than 3.8 million have gotten second boosters.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/03/23/china-to-fully-reopen-borders-with-hong-kong-macau">China to fully reopen borders with Hong Kong, Macau</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t_WOb3gSIrU?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

The Philippines recorded 1,012 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, the Department of Health said Monday. 