MANILA, Philippines — A total of 19,763 individuals in the country have died due to COVID-19 complications, government data on Friday showed.
The latest case bulletin from the Department of Health (DOH) showed that 141 more patients have died as the government works toward decreasing the number of active cases.
The total COVID-19 death toll represents 1.69 percent of all the 1,171,403 confirmed cases in the country. The country representative of the World Health Organization earlier cited the Philippines for maintaining a low case fatality rate among COVID-19 patients.
Also on Friday, the DOH reported a total of 55,531 active cases of COVID-19.
Of this number,…
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