(FILE) Workers in protective suits, used due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, wait outside a crematorium facility as the cremation process takes some two hours in Manila on April 29, 2020. (Photo by Maria TAN / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines — Another 122 patients have succumbed to COVID-19, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday, raising the country’s coronavirus death count to 26,598.
According to the DOH, the deaths account for 1.77 percent of all the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, which breached the 1.5 million mark also on Saturday.
The country now has 47,257 active cases of COVID-19, of which 2.7 percent are severe and 1.6 percent are critical that are at higher risk for death.
Meanwhile, 91.8 percent of the active cases are mild, 1.89 percent are moderate, and 2 percent are asymptomatic.
The DOH reported an average of 112 deaths from the period of July 11 to 17, and an average of 107 deaths from July 4 to 10.