MANILA, June 25 (Xinhua): Nearly 2 million women in the Philippines between ages 15 to 49 years old will get pregnant this year, a population commission said on Thursday, warning of an additional 214,000 unplanned births this year amid the restrictions to contain the Covid-19 epidemic.
The Philippine Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) said that 10 per cent of the births will be among women below 20 years of age, with an additional 5,000 pregnancies.
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