(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 — The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed on Saturday another 238 deaths due to COVID-19 complications.
These fatalities brought the country’s total death toll to 45,272, which represents 1.61 percent of all the 2,815,080 confirmed cases of the disease.
There are still 29,382 patients with COVID-19 in the country, according to the DOH data.
Weekly deaths by date of death (Screenshot from DOH’s COVID-19 tracker)
Of the active cases, 63.6 percent are mild, 5.6 percent are asymptomatic, 16.34 are moderate, 10.1 percent are severe, and 4.3 percent are critical.
Meanwhile, on hospital occupancy, 36 percent of intensive care unit beds, 30 percent of isolation beds, 23 percent of ward beds, and 21 percent of ventilators are currently being used.
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