Data on deaths presented in this special release were obtained from the timely and late registered deaths at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars throughout the province and submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General through the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-Provincial Statistical Office (PSO) for encoding. Information presented includes the deaths the occurred from January until June 2021 (cut-off date is as of July 16, 2021 on the submission of encoded data files to the PSA-Central Office from PSOs). Figures presented herein are still preliminary and may differ from the final counts. Deaths of Filipinos abroad are not yet included in the data, only those who died in the country but whose usual residence is abroad.