16 of 32 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Quezon are health workers

LUCENA CITY –– At least six more health workers in Quezon province have been confirmed to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), bringing the total recorded cases among their sector to 16.

In its 4 p.m. report on Monday, the Quezon Public Information Office disclosed that the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the province rose to 32 from Monday’s 25.

Of the new seven cases, six are all health workers as disclosed by the local chief executives of Lucena City, the towns of Real and Pagbilao, and the local government of Tayabas City.

Lucena Mayor Roderick Alcala told the Inquirer that the two new cases from the city are a doctor and a nurse, both working in a local medical facility.

In Pagbilao, Mayor Shierre Anne Portes Palicpic said on her Facebook page that the first two confirmed COVID-19 cases in their locality are health workers in a Lucena hospital.

Real Mayor Bing Diestro-Aquino said the first lone COVID-19 case from their town is also a health worker.

The Tayabas City government, on its Facebook page, reported that the latest case in their place was also a health worker in a local hospital.

Of the 16 health workers with COVID-19, at least six came from Lucena, four of them “doctors.”

Last week, one of the infected health workers from Tayabas City tested negative and had been discharged from the hospital.

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