For the first time since October 2020, the Philippines confirmed more than 3,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day on Friday, March 5, as vaccines begin to arrive, data from the Department of Health showed.
The DOH tallied 3,045 new infections for the day, bringing the total to 535, 207, of which, 40,074 or 6.8% are active. Some 91.1% of cases have recovered. The 19 deaths recorded Friday brought the total death toll to 12,423.
The seven-day moving average in the number of daily cases has risen this week, based on the DOH COVID tracker.
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Roughly a million vaccines have arrived in the Philippines this week, half were donated by China while the rest were courtesy of the global vaccine equity alliance COVAX.
Also this week, authorities confirmed 58 cases of the South African COVID-19 variant, "suggests higher transmissibility and and may have an impact on vaccine efficacy."
