MANILA – The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) reported 866 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 3,663,920.
The DOH said 53 more people died from COVID-19 complications, pushing the country’s death toll to 56,504.
The government has been issuing daily COVID-19 bulletin since the highly transmissible disease emerged in early 2020. Health Secretary Francisco Duque told a television interview on Wednesday the DOH will cease issuing daily COVID-19 bulletin starting March 7 as coronavirus case count dips.
Instead, the DOH will issue a weekly bulletin every Monday afternoon, he added.
“The reason being, first, we already see very low caseload of COVID-19, and, number two, we have seen that even if we had surge sometime in mid-January, a tiny percentage of this accounted for severe and critical cases,” he said.
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The DOH has reported under 2,000 new cases since Feb. 19 as the Omicron wave which peaked in mid-January ebbed.
The Philippines has seen four COVID-19 waves since 2020. The country reported the highest single-day tally on Jan. 15 this year, with 39,004 new cases.
The Philippines, which has around 110 million population, has tested over 26 million people.
