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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 hear...

(Photo courtesy ofPopCom/Benjie Espartero) MANILA - The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) on Friday said the number of adolescents who gave birth in 2020 went down by 23,855. In 2019, births by mothers under 19 years old reached 180,915 anddroppedto 157,060 last year. A substantial part of the decrease was in the 15 to 19 age bracket, with the 23,557 mothers constituting 98.7 percent of the decline. The daily birth rate of the 15-19 group was at 425, lower than 2019's 489. Adolescent birth rates were at 31 per 1,000 girls in 2020, significantly lower than the 47 per 1,000 i...