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MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) lost another police officer to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), bringing its death toll from the disease to 34.
Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, PNP officer in charge and deputy chief for administration, said the fatality is a 45-year-old police officer assigned with the Legal Service Division who died on March 14 due to cardiac arrest with Covid-19 as an antecedent cause.
On Monday, the PNP logged 103 new cases, increasing the total number of Covid-19 infections among police officers to 12,343.
Meanwhile, a total of 74 police officers have recovered from the disease, bringing the PNP’s recovery tally to 11,391.
The police force currently has 918 active Covid-19 cases. Eleazar said the PNP is conducting aggressive testing nationwide.
Meanwhile, Eleazar said 1,699 out of 1,845 police medical front-liners who have registered for Covid-19 vaccination have so far been inoculated.
Of this figure, Eleazar said only 30 have so far experienced minor adverse reactions to the vaccines but these quickly disappeared and posed no harm to the inoculated personnel.
Eleazar said 1,632 in Metro Manila and other police regional offices have been vaccinated with the Chinese-donated Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac vaccines while 67 were injected with the COVAX Facility-donated AstraZeneca jabs, of which an initial 700 doses were given to the PNP.
The PNP earlier received some 1,200 CoronaVac doses from the 600,000 doses donated by the Chinese government to the Philippines. (with Priam Nepomuceno/PNA)
