OVER 150,000 more Filipinos died last year compared to the whole of 2020, leading to the highest mortality rate in 63 years, according to the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom).
OVER 150,000 more Filipinos died last year compared to the whole of 2020, leading to the highest mortality rate in 63 years, according to the Commission on Population and Development .
“The increasing number of deaths indicates a health system severely challenged by the pandemic and its consequences,” explained Juan A. Perez III, Undersecretary for Population and Development. Perez estimated that the 2021 number of deaths already indicates the highest annual death statistic in the Philippines’s recorded medical history.
From a health standpoint, he enjoined concerned national and local governments agencies to increase investments in the health workforce and public-health programs dealing with increased morbidity of the leading causes of disease which require improving primary health-care systems throughout the country.
About 105,425 deaths, or 11.04 percent of 954,585 deaths from April 2020 to October 2021, were classified as caused by Covid-19. Death rate tagged to the disease was 95.8 per 100,000 population. “Thus, the statistics above elevated Covid-19 as the second-deadliest killer of Filipinos in 2021,” the Popcom chief stated. “We are expecting more numbers from November and December of last year. We can presume that there were about 800,000 deaths or more then.”
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