In recent months, the country saw more patients dying daily from COVID-19, most were unvaccinated, the Department of Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said. | JEMendozaINQ
Unvaccinated people also accounted for the majority of deaths in July and August.
“Upon analyzing our data, noong tinignan natin from July 1 to August 14… we found that 63 percent of these deaths were those who were not vaccinated,” Vergeire pointed out. As of Thursday, the country has reported 61,221 deaths or 1.61 percent of the total caseload, which stands at 3,802,103, according to the DOH COVID-19 tracker.World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said
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