2 health workers contract COVID-19 in Alabat, Quezon

LUCENA CITY –– Two health workers from the island town of Alabat in Quezon province have contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), local authorities reported Tuesday.

The latest COVID-19 patient in the locality is a 21-year-old male health worker, the local government of Alabat announced on social media around noontime.

The asymptomatic patient had close contacts with three local COVID-19 patients.

On Monday, the local government also reported that a 56-year-old female health worker was infected by two active virus carriers in the locality.

Alabat, located on the island with the same name off the Pacific Ocean, recorded nine COVID-19 cases since June 20.

However, five of them have recovered and one died.

Aside from the latest case in Alabat, the town of Guinayangan recorded three new virus carriers and Lucena City with two, the Quezon public information reported at noon.

Quezon, still under the modified general community quarantine, has at least 249 COVID-19 cases, but 183 have recovered and 13 others have died.

Local health authorities still keep watch over 115 persons suspected of infection and confined in hospitals in different parts of the province. Another 148 are on home quarantine.

At least 29 municipalities in the province have recorded COVID-19 cases but 15 towns have wiped their slate clean with the recoveries and deaths of local patients.

The remaining 53 active COVID-19 cases are scattered in 14 other localities out of 41 municipalities in Quezon.

At least 12 other municipalities in the province remain virus-free.

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