This photo taken on April 6, 2021 shows a relative wearing personal protective equipment attending to a family member with COVID-19 at a makeshift ward in a hospital in Manila. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines — Deaths related to COVID-19 rose to 24,973 on Friday as the Department of Health (DOH) reported an additional 117 fatalities.
The DOH began reporting deaths over 100 in April this year as the country saw a surge in COVID-19 cases. Friday’s new deaths mark the fourth consecutive day that the country again reported more than 100 deaths this June.
The total deaths were among the 1,424,518 total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country since the pandemic began. The case fatality rate still stands at 1.75 percent from this number, which the World Health Organization describes as a low number.
The DOH reported an average of 117 deaths in case bulletins from June 26 to July 2, higher than the average of 109 deaths logged from June 19 to 25.
According to DOH, 55,482 from the total tally of cases remain active infections, of which 2 percent are severe and 1.4 percent are critical.
Meanwhile, 91.5 percent are mild, 3.8 percent are asymptomatic, and 1.44 percent are moderate cases.