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PH records 17,891 COVID cases, 242 deaths in past week

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Commuters line up at an EDSA bus carousel terminal along Monumento in Caloocan City on Sept. 14, 2022. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/life/09/26/20220914-edsa-bus-commuter-jc-9.jpg"/><figcaption>Commuters line up at an EDSA bus carousel terminal along Monumento in Caloocan City on Sept. 14, 2022. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA (UPDATE) — The Philippines recorded 17,891 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, the Department of Health said Monday. </p><p>From Sept. 19 to 25, the country recorded an average of 2,556 daily infections, which is 22 percent higher compared to the previous week, according to the health department&#x27;s latest bulletin.</p><p>This is also the highest number of cases logged in a single week in 4 weeks, or since the week of Aug. 22 to 28, according to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.</p><p>But it is also the fifth week with weekly cases below 20,000, ABS-CBN IRG added.</p><p>Of the new infections, 2 or 0.01 percent were severe and critical.</p><p>As of Sunday, 790 or 11 percent of COVID-19 admissions were in severe and critical condition, the DOH said.</p><p>This is the highest proportion of severe and critical cases to the total COVID-19 admissions in 15 weeks, or since the week of June 6 to 12 when the proportion was at 11.3 percent, ABS-CBN IRG said.</p><p>At least 576 or 22.9 percent of 2,514 intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 patients were occupied. Meanwhile, the non-ICU bed utilization rate was at 27.8 percent.</p><p>This is the tenth straight week with ICU bed utilization rate above 20 percent. The COVID-19 ICU bed utilization rate in the weeks of July 18 to Sept. 18 ranged between 21.7 percent and 28 percent, ABS-CBN IRG said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/25/22/ph-reports-3520-new-covid-cases-highest-since-sept-1">Philippines reports 3,520 new COVID cases, highest daily tally since Sept. 1</a></li></ul><p>During the past week, the DOH said it verified 242 more COVID-related fatalities, citing late encoding of death information. The deaths occurred in the following months:</p><ul>	<li>34 in September 2022</li>	<li>1 in January 2022</li>	<li>59 in October 2021</li>	<li>147 in September 2021</li>	<li>1 in April 2021</li></ul><div><strong>ACTIVE CASES BACK AT OVER 37,000</strong></div><p>Later in the day, the DOH also reported 2,001 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total caseload to 3,940,201 cases.</p><p>Twenty-nine deaths were also reported, raising the total to 62,819.</p><p>The number of active cases is now at 37,082, the highest since Aug. 19, ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team head Edson Guido said.</p><p>The total number of those who recovered from the illness has reached 3,840,300. </p><p>Of the newly reported infections, 947 are from Metro Manila.</p><p>To date, around 73 million Filipinos are fully vaccinated against the respiratory disease. </p><p>Of the figure, some 19 million have received their first booster dose while almost 2.7 million have gotten their second booster shots.</p><p>Due to typhoon Karding, the DOH delayed Monday&#x27;s launch of &quot;PinasLakas Bakunahang Bayan&quot; in Luzon, including Metro Manila.</p><p>The special vaccination week, set from Sept. 26-30, aims to administer at least 5 million booster shots.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/26/22/typhoon-delays-bakunahang-bayan-launch-in-luzon">DOH postpones launch of &#x27;Bakunahang Bayan&#x27; in Luzon due to Karding</a></li></ul><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2251279" width="100%"></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 17,891 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, the Department of Health said Monday.