The Health Agency reported 866 new cases today, of which 87% are fresh (within the last two weeks). The remaining 13% were backlogs. There were close to 24000 tested with a 4.7% positivity rate on the last day of February 2022. Top regions with cases were NCR, Western Visayas and Central Luzon.

There are 53 deaths today, 23 of which occurred in February and 2 last January 2022. The remaining were backlogs all the way back to 2020, where there were deaths that occurred in March, July and November 2020 that were only being reported today.

There were 5 duplicates removed from the total case count, of which 3 are recoveries.

There were 46 cases previously tagged as recoveries but eventually determined as deaths after final validation.