MANILA, Philippines—The COVID-19 death toll in the Philippine National Police (PNP) continued to spiral and is now 56.
A 50-year-old lieutenant from Calabarzon was the new fatality, PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said in a statement on Friday (April 30).
The policeman, who has comorbidity or preexisting condition that raises COVID-19 mortality, showed symptoms a week after getting his first injection of Coronavac, the coronavirus vaccine made by Chinese company Sinovac. He tested positive for SARS Cov2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, after that.
Last April 15, the lieutenant was admitted in a hospital in Batangas province, where his oxygen sat…
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