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Philippines logs more severe, critical COVID-19 patients as cases rise

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Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="COVID-19 cases" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/08/01/20220712-pedestrians-economy-makati-md-12.jpg"/><figcaption>Pedestrians walk at a crossing in Makati City on July 12, 2022. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATED) </strong>- The Philippines reported 24,100 new COVID-19 cases and 744 severely and critically ill patients last week, the Department of Health said Monday. </p><p>The country logged an average of 3,443 infections per day from July 25 to 31, according to the DOH&#x27;s latest bulletin. The figure is 24 percent higher than the previous week&#x27;s 2,791 average daily cases.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/25/22/ph-logs-33pct-week-on-week-spike-in-new-covid-cases">Philippines reports 33pct more COVID cases during the last week</a></li></ul><p>Later in the day, the DOH reported a daily addition of 3,553 cases and 10 deaths. These bring the total confirmed cases recorded in the country to 3,780,178, and the death toll to 60,737, as of Monday.</p><p>Of the new cases, 1,185 are from Metro Manila.</p><p>Active cases stood at 34,268, which is the highest since April 4, ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team head Edson Guido said.</p><p>Of the additional infections on July 25-31, the DOH said 76 were severe and critical.</p><p>A total of 744 or 9.2 percent of COVID-19 patients in hospitals were in severe and critical condition as of Sunday, said the DOH. The figure is higher than the previous week&#x27;s 666 severe and critical patients who comprised 8.7 percent of COVID-19 hospital admissions at the time.</p><p>There were 601 or 23.3 percent of 2,583 intensive care unit (ICU) beds for COVID-19 patients that were occupied as of Sunday.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GUD5_Q7-p14?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><p>During the past week, 44 COVID-related fatalities were verified, including those in previous months. The deaths occurred in the following period:</p><ul>	<li>1 in June 2022</li>	<li>3 in January 2022</li>	<li>2 in November 2021</li>	<li>7 in October 2021</li>	<li>20 in September 2021</li>	<li>11 in August 2021</li></ul><div><strong>ANALYSIS BY RESEARCH GROUP</strong></div><p>The number of recorded new cases on July 25-31 is the highest since the week of Feb.7-13 this year, when the DOH logged 28,280, the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group said.</p><p>It is also higher by 23.4 percent, or by 4,564 cases, compared to the 19,536 logged on July 18-24.</p><p>Last week&#x27;s additional cases is the first in 24 weeks that the weekly total breached 20,000, said the ABS-CBN IRG.</p><p>As regards, COVID-19 ICU bed utilization, the 23.3 percent reported as of Sunday is the highest in 21 weeks, or since the week of March 1-7, when the rate was at 25.7 percent, noted the research group.</p><p>There has been upward trend in the said rate in the last seven weeks, according to the ABS-CBN IRG, as specified below:</p><p>June 13-19: 14.6%<br/>June 20-26: 14.9%<br/>June 27-July 3: 15.3%<br/>July 4-10: 17.0%<br/>July 11-17: 18.3%<br/>July 18-24: 21.7%<br/>July 25-31: 23.3%</p><p>The country&#x27;s rise in virus infections can be attributed to waning immunity, the public&#x27;s increased mobility and lower compliance to minimum health standards, and the entry of new subvariants, the DOH earlier said.</p><p>The Philippines has so far detected 1,997 omicron BA.5 cases, 154 omicron BA.2.12.1 cases, and 71 omicron BA.4 cases, according to the DOH.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/28/22/ph-detects-923-more-cases-of-omicron-subvariants">Philippines detects 923 more cases of omicron subvariants</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/28/22/metro-manila-at-moderate-risk-for-covid-19-health-dept">Metro Manila at moderate risk for COVID-19, healthcare utilization still low risk: DOH</a></li></ul><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/AVrvthCAQzJlpBi36CK6" data-title="Weekly COVID-19 cases in the PH" data-type="interactive"><p>Some 71 million people have been fully vaccinated against the respiratory disease, of whom 16.2 million have received their booster shots.</p></div><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/AVrvthCAQzJlpBi36CK6" data-title="Weekly COVID-19 cases in the PH" data-type="interactive"> </div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script>

The Philippines reported 24,100 new COVID-19 cases and 744 severe and critical patients during the last week, the Department of Health said Monday. 

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Philippines logs more severe, critical COVID-19 patients as cases rise

Gillan Ropero,

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Published Aug 01, 2022 05:02 PM PHT

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Updated Aug 01, 2022 09:04 PM PHT

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