MANILA, Philippines — An additional 210 COVID-19 patients have died, raising the number of fatalities related to the disease to 20,379 as of Thursday, according to data from the Department of Health (DOH).
This was the highest number of deaths reported in a day for the month of May. The previous highest number of deaths for the month was logged on May 9 when the DOH reported 204 new fatalities.
The current death toll is 1.70 percent of all the 1.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country.
Previous bulletins from the DOH showed that there were a total of 797 deaths reported from the past seven days, or from May 21 to 27, with an average of 113 daily reported d…
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