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2/5/22 High attack rate in Philippines ???? helps expedite INNOVATE and the WHO’s STV
Most infections in Metro

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1550181/govt-sets-another-vax-drive-for-feb-10-11

Metro Manila was back on the list of regions which registered the most number of cases with 907, followed by Western Visayas with 782, and the Davao Region with 753.

The country’s positivity rate was 24.3 percent, lower than the 25.5 percent on Thursday. This was based on 37,932 people tested on Wednesday.

The national caseload was now 3,594,002. There were 151,389 active cases, of which 139,940 were mild; 6,522, asymptomatic; 3,107, moderate; 1,500, severe; and 320, critical.

The 10,474 new recoveries brought the total number of survivors to 3,388,399.

There were 46 new fatalities, which raised the death toll to 54,214. The DOH said 26 deaths were from this month, while the rest happened between October 2021 and January 2022 and were reported only on Friday.

Intensive care unit beds in Metro Manila were now 38-percent full (against 44 percent at the national level); isolation beds, 32 percent (42 percent nationwide); and ward beds, 35 percent (also 42 percent nationwide).

Friday’s bulletin said 21 percent of ventilators in Metro Manila were in use, against 22 percent for the whole country.

Pediatric cases

In an advisory, the DOH said that contribution of children between 0 and 11 years old to the total pediatric cases was higher during the Omicron wave last January compared with the Delta wave late last year.

“Cases among the 0 to 11 age group comprised an average of 56 percent of the total pediatric cases in September and this climbed up to 69.2 percent in January,” the department said.

The DOH reported 8,564 new coronavirus infections on Friday, the fourth straight day that the daily tally fell below 10,000.

Yet amid the decline in new cases, Dr. Guido David, fellow of independent pandemic monitor OCTA Research, said infections in 11 provinces continued to increase as manifested by their “positive” one-week growth rates.

These provinces are Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao del Norte, Guimaras, Maguindanao, Sarangani, Siquijor, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Tawi-Tawi and Zamboanga del Norte.

He also noted “very high” growth rates in Davao Occidental (85 percent) and Camiguin (78 percent).

Still, the new cases in the latest DOH bulletin were slightly lower than Thursday’s 8,702, even as the tally did not include figures from six laboratories which failed to submit their data to the DOH.