PH’s COVID-19 death toll tops 24,000 with 108 more deaths

This file photo shows a worker in a protective suit, used due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, waits outside the crematorium facility as the cremation process takes some two hours in Manila on April 29, 2020. (Photo by Maria TAN / AFP FILE)

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s COVID-19 death toll rose to 24,036 on Thursday as 108 more succumb to the illness.

Data from the Department of Health (DOH) showed that deaths still account for 1.74 percent of all the 1,378,260 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country.

Of this number, 51,410 remain active infections, including 2 percent that are severe and 1.4 percent that are critical and are at a higher risk for death.

There was an average of 108 deaths reported per day from June 18 to 24, lower than the average of 138 fatalities that were added to the count per day from June 11 to 17.

The DOH said Wednesday that COVID-19 deaths are on a decline for the month of June. Data from the health agency showed that by the week of death, the average fatalities per day from June 1 to 22 is 56, lower than the average of 107 average for the entire May and 121 in April.

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