COVID-19 was the seventh leading cause of death in the Philippines in 2020, with 27,967 deaths attributed to the disease though 70 percent of these have not been confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH).
Data on deaths collected as of last Feb. 26 by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) from city and municipal registrars nationwide from January to December 2020 showed 19,758 deaths had been reported as COVID-19 related but “virus not identified.”
National Statistician Dennis Mapa explained to the Inquirer that these unidentified COVID-19 deaths had not been reported by the DOH as those were likely patients who had not been tested for SARS Cov2, the coron…
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