THE Philippine National Police (PNP), in a report submitted by the PNP Health Service (PNPHS), said a policeman assigned in Cebu City is the latest fatality of the police force due to COVID-19, raising the total number of deaths to 99.
PNP Chief, Police General Guillermo Eleazar said the 44-year-old police lieutenant colonel died on August 18 due to acute respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19.
“On August 11, said patient experienced mild symptoms of COVID-19 and immediately underwent an RT-PCR test which yielded a positive result,” Eleazar stated.
After battling with the virus for almost one week, he was declared dead by his attending physician.
As of August 20, the PNPHS also recorded 179 recoveries among the infected personnel bringing the total recoveries to 31,178 while 123 new cases were noted, bringing the total cases to 33,034 with 1,757 active cases.
Further, there are now 86,843 or 39.09 percent fully vaccinated police personnel while 101,304 or 45.60 percent still await their second dose to complete their inoculation. With this, there are only 34,022 or 15.31 percent of police personnel who have not been vaccinated.