PNP: 109 more personnel contracted COVID-19, bringing total to 40,345

A total of 109 more Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel have contracted COVID-19, bringing the total cases in the organization to 40,345 as of Tuesday.

In an update, the PNP said 38,386 have already recovered from the disease while 1,840 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/KBK, GMA News