68 more PNP personnel contracted COVID-19 bringing total to 40,245

The Philippine National Police has recorded a total of 40,245 COVID-19 cases as 68 more personnel tested positive for the disease as of Monday.

In an update, the PNP said 38,206 have already recovered from the disease while 1,920 are still active cases.

The death toll due to COVID-19 among PNP personnel remained at 119.

On Saturday, the PNP identified the two latest fatalities as a patrolman assigned in Bicol and police chief master sergeant in Mimaropa.

The patrolman died on September 23 due to critical pneumonia caused by COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the PNP said the police chief master sergeant had been undergoing dialysis twice a week as treatment for chronic kidney disease.

During the first week of September, he was advised to go on alternative working arrangement to continue treatment.

He succumbed on September 29 at a local hospital, according to the PNP. — Joviland Rita/RSJ, GMA News