Quezon has 2 new COVID-19 patients

LUCENA CITY –– Health authorities in Quezon province reported on Thursday (May 14) that two more were added to the growing list of confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients.

The Quezon public information office (QPIO) in its 8 a.m. report, traced the latest COVID-19 cases to Lopez town, bringing the total recorded virus carriers in the province to 75.

The QPIO gave no other details about the new virus carriers.

Dr. Grace Santiago, head of the Integrated Provincial Health Office, in a local television program disclosed that the latest COVID-19 patients, both in stable conditions, are confined at Magsaysay District Hospital in Lopez.

With the latest report, Lopez has recorded a total of six confirmed COVID-19 cases, with one of them recovered.

With the reported recovery of 46 virus carriers and the death of seven others, the number of remaining COVID-19 patients in the province is down to 22.

Quezon has also recorded a total of 1,465 suspected coronavirus carriers but 41 of them had died.

A total of 1,154 suspected virus carriers have been discharged from hospitals or completed their home quarantine.

At least 116 “suspects” are still confined in different hospitals, and 154 are still under home quarantine.

The province recorded three “probable” patients. However, two of them have completed the mandatory home quarantine and showed no more symptoms, while the other one remains in home isolation.

Starting May 16, Quezon province will be downgraded from enhanced community quarantine to general community quarantine status until May 31, as declared by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases.

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