(Eagle News) — Seventy more COVID-19 cases have been reported among police personnel.
The Philippine National Police said the additional cases pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 9595.
Of these, 480 were active.
Twenty-five more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19, according to the latest PNP data, pushing the PNP recovery total to 9087.
No additional death was reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 28.
Policemen are among the country’s frontliners amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The government has said uniformed personnel, including policemen, were priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination program.
The Food and Drug Administration has so far issued an emergency use authorization for Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, with other EUAs underway.
The government has said it was targeting COVID-19 vaccination of 50 to 60 percent of the population to achieve herd immunity.