The last day of February 2022 comes with good news. It's been awhile since we saw triple digits.

The Health Agency announces 951 new cases based on 5% positivity (now at low risk in testing) from 22407 tests done last February 26. The active cases drop to a little more than 52,000 cases with 91.4% of them being asymptomatic or mild at the time of testing.

Of the cases reported today, 94% are recent (last two weeks) with NCR, CALABARZON and Western Visayas leading the regions. NCR accounted for an average of 1/4 of the national cases.

There are 50 deaths added today. Of the deaths, 90% of them were recent (January and February 2022) while only 4 deaths were from last year (September and June 2021).

Three duplicates were removed from the total, of which one case was a recovery.

There were 36 cases previously tagged as recoveries but were actually deaths after final validation.