MANILA, Philippines — The total number of COVID-19 deaths from March to May amounted to 30 percent of the total number of fatalities since the pandemic started last year, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Thursday.
DOH Epidemiology Bureau OIC-Director Alethea De Guzman said that the high sum of deaths for the recent months is “not unusual” as cases peaked during the surge of infections in April.
“Sa ngayon, pag i-combine ko ‘yung dami ng deaths natin across March, April, and May, they really comprise around 30% of the total deaths natin from the start of the pandemic. [This is] not unusual because we really had a large number of cases over April and May,” she explain…
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