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768K deaths in PH in 2021 highest since post-World War II

Isolation facilty for Covid-19 patients (File photo) MANILA - Registered deaths across the Philippines stood at 768,504 from January to November last year, higher by 154,562 than the entire 2020. This number hiked the country's mortality rate to 6.98 per thousand, as against 5.8 per thousand in 2020, according to data released by the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) on Tuesday, gathered from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The figures also set most the number of Filipinos dying in a year since after World War 2 in 1939 to 1945, according to PopCom. Ischemic heart disease was responsible for 110,332 deaths until October 2021, up from 86,164 the previous year. Covid-19 was another underlying cause of death for 75,285 Filipinos, higher than the 30,140 deaths from the same cause from March to December 2020. PopCom chief, Dr. Juan A. Perez III, said the increasing number indicates a health system severely challenged by the pandemic. "Diseases with higher

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