The country's positivity rate, or the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), has decreased to 6.4 percent as of July 7, from 7.2 percent as of June 30. "The Department of Health (DOH) reported 397 new cases, zero deaths, 531 recoveries. About 65 of the new cases are from the National Capital Region (NCR), projecting 300 to 400 new cases the next day (July 8)," OCTA Research Group fellow Dr. Guido David said over Twitter on Friday. To date, the country's overall tally of Covid-19 infections has reached 4,167,259 with 6,637 active cases. The total number of Covid-19 deaths stands at 66,484. The DOH's latest bio-surveillance report showed 1,468 samples were sequenced on June 26-29 by the Philippine Genome Center. It disclosed that 85 percent of cases were XBB types. "The most dominant was XBB 1.9.1 at 25 percent but XBB 2.3 or Acrux increased to 22 percent while XBB 1.16 or Arcturus was at 15 percent," David said. "Moreover, 227 of the cases were from the NCR and 78 percent of them were XBB types. The most dominant was XBB 2.3 or Acrux at 33 percent."

Source: Philippines News Agency