As of August 11, the country has 36,035 active cases, according to the Department of Health. Of these cases, 21,138 are mild, 291 cases are severe, and 128 patients are in critical condition.
The World Health Organization said Covid-19 deaths fell by 9 percent last week with over 14,000 fatalities reported. Globally, the number of new weekly cases remained stable from August 1 to 7 as compared to the previous week, with over 6.9 million new cases reported. As of August 7, WHO reported a global total of 581.8 million confirmed cases and 6.4 million deaths.
The world health body issued a caveat on current trends in reported Covid-19 cases and deaths. It said the figures should be interpreted with caution as several countries have been progressively changing Covid-19 testing strategies, resulting in lower overall numbers of tests performed and consequently lower numbers of cases detected.
Globally, from July 8 to August 8, 2022, a total of 175,384 sequences were collected and uploaded to GISAID. Among these, 174,089 sequences were Omicron variant of concern, accounting for 99 percent of sequences reported globally in the past 30 days. A comparison of sequences submitted to GISAID from July 24 to 30 and July 17 to 23 shows that BA.5 Omicron remains dominant globally, accounting for nearly 70 percent of all sequenced virus samples.
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