(Eagle News) — Forty-eight more police personnel have recovered from COVID-19.
The Philippine National Police said the additional cases pushed the COVID-19 recoveries among police personnel to 9936.
Thirty-eight additional cases, however, also pushed the PNP COVID-19 total to 10519.
Of these, 553 were active.
No additional death was reported, which means the PNP COVID-19 death toll remains at 30.
The government has said uniformed personnel, including policemen, were among the priorities in a COVID-19 national vaccination program slated to start this year.
So far, the Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.
Health authorities have said over 9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses secured from the COVAX facility are expected to arrive by April.
