Published April 18, 2021, 7:37 PM
Two police sergeants died of health complications due to the coronavirus, the recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths in the Philippine National Police (PNP).
Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, commander of the Administrative Support for COVID-19 Task Force (ASCOTF), said the latest deaths brought to 51 the total number of fatalities in the PNP due to the virus.
He said the 50
th fatality was a 49-year old Police Executive Master Sergeant assigned to the Police Regional Office 12 who died on April 14.
The 51
st, he said, was a 40-year old Staff Sergeant assigned to the Police Regional Office Cordillera. He died on April 17.