The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday logged additional 15,789 Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 3,475,293.
There were also 32,712 recoveries and 66 deaths.
Of the 15,789 reported cases, 15,061 (95 percent) occurred within the recent 14 days (January 13 to January 26, 2022).
The top regions with cases in the recent two weeks were Region 4A (2,248 or 10 percent), NCR (2,135 or 14 percent), and Region 7 (1,520 or 10 percent).
Of the 66 deaths, 65 occurred in January 2022 (98 percent), and one in August 2021 (2 percent) due to late encoding of death information to COVIDKaya. This issue, the DOH said, is currently being coordinated with the Epidemiology and Surveillance Units to ensure information is up to date.
Of the total number of cases, 6.6 percent (230,410) are active, 91.8 percent (3,191,219) have recovered, and 1.54 percent (53,664) died.
There were 142 duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, 80 are recoveries.
Moreover, 10 cases that were previously tagged as recoveries were reclassified as deaths after final validation.
All laboratories were operational on January 24, 2022 but three labs were not able to submit their data to the Covid-19 Document Repository System.
Based on data in the last 14 days, the three labs contribute, on average, 0.1 percent of samples tested and 0.1 percent of positive individuals.