PH logs 210 COVID-related deaths — highest recorded fatality in May

LAST RESPECTS Health workers in Zamboanga City pay their last respects to a COVID-19 patient who died in a local hospital while officials try to control the surge in infections. —PHOTO COURTESY OF MAHIR GUSTAHAM

MANILA, Philippines — An additional 210 COVID-19 patients have died, raising the number of fatalities related to the disease to 20,379 as of Thursday, according to data from the Department of Health (DOH).

This was the highest number of deaths reported in a day for the month of May. The previous highest number of deaths for the month was logged on May 9 when the DOH reported 204 new fatalities.

Just like the recorded daily case bulletins, the number of fatalities is collated over the course of a few days then logged everyday.

The current death toll is 1.70 percent of all the 1.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country.

Previous bulletins from the DOH showed that there were a total of 797 deaths reported from the past seven days, or from May 21 to 27, with an average of 113 daily reported deaths.

Meanwhile, the average number of deaths recorded from May 28 to 20 was 117, with accumulative 823 deaths during the period.

Data from the DOH showed that of the current 48,109 active cases, 2.1 percent are severe and 1.6 percent are critical.

Also on Thursday, Dr. Alethea De Guzman, OIC-Director of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau said there are a total of 1,538 COVID-19 deaths in May as of May 26, or an average of 64 deaths per day.

“We’re now below the peak of last year,” she said in an online media forum.

“We want to have even less deaths tulad ng nakikita natin noong huling parte ng taon (like what we saw towards the latter part of last year),” she added.

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