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DOH seeing rise in COVID-19 deaths; more than half unvaccinated

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Health workers assist a patient being admitted at the Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital located at the Quirino Grandstand on Jan. 12, 2022. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/File" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tvpatrol/08/19/20220112-covid-field-hospital-manila-gc-8500.jpg"/><figcaption>Health workers assist a patient being admitted at the Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital located at the Quirino Grandstand on Jan. 12, 2022. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA (<strong>UPDATED</strong>) — The Philippines is experiencing a rise in the number of COVID-19-related deaths in the past weeks, the Department of Health (DOH) said Friday.</p><p>The country was only averaging 1 death per day in June, DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a press briefing.</p><p>&quot;There is this observed increase in the number of deaths over these past months,&quot; she told reporters.</p><p>&quot;For July, we have averaged 8 deaths per day. Sa mid-August, ganun din ang nakikita natin. Nine deaths per day naman,&quot; she said.</p><p>More than half or 63 percent of the fatalities, Vergeire said, were unvaccinated.</p><p>&quot;Gusto lang natin magpaalala sa ating mga kababayan, mas tumataas &#x27;yung probabilidad na kayo ay magka-severe infection at maaaring mamatay kung hindi tayo magpabakuna,&quot; she added.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/18/22/philippines-logs-3758-new-covid-cases-48-new-deaths">Philippines reports 3,758 new COVID-19 cases, 48 new deaths</a></li></ul><p>Since the pandemic began, over 61,000 have succumbed to the disease, data from DOH as of Aug. 18 showed.</p><div><strong>ICU ADMISSIONS ALMOST DOUBLE</strong></div><p>Vergeire disclosed that patients admitted to ICU and severe and critical cases admission associated with COVID-19 remained on an uptrend.</p><p>The number of patients admitted to intensive care units is now almost twice of the occupancies at the start of July, she added.</p><p>To date, the country has 850 severe and critical COVID-19 cases, which translates to 8.81 percent of the total admissions.</p><p>Majority of those admitted to hospitals for COVID-19 remain asymptomatic (50.8 percent) and mild cases (40.6 percent), Vergeire said. </p><p>On Friday, the Philippines reported 3,748 fresh COVID-19 cases, raising the country&#x27;s total confirmed coronavirus infections to 3,848,449.</p><p>Of the tally, some 36,115 are considered active cases while 3.74 million have recovered from the virus. <strong>— With a report from Raphael Bosano, ABS-CBN News</strong></p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2179974" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><address style="text-align:center">Courtesy of DOH</address>

More than half or 63 percent of the fatalities, Vergeire said, were unvaccinated.