MANILA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) — At least 404 public school learners committed suicide, and 2,147 learners attempted suicide in the Philippines in 2021 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, an official of the Department of Education said on Tuesday, calling it “an alarming rate that continues to go up.”
Philippine Education Assistant Secretary Dexter Galban told a senate hearing that the school suicide rate “is som