LUCENA CITY –– All 41 municipalities in Quezon province have now been invaded by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
San Andres, a coastal town in Quezon’s Bondoc Peninsula district that managed to remain virus-free since the pandemic erupted in early March, recorded its first confirmed case Monday morning.
The rural health unit of the municipality, on its Facebook page, said the town’s first validated virus carrier is a 31-year-old woman from Barangay Pansoy.
The asymptomatic patient is now under quarantine in an isolation facility.
The local government has been conducting contact tracing to prevent the spread of the virus.
San Andres, which faces Ragay Gulf, is a fourth-class municipality in the southern tip of Quezon. It is situated 128 kilometers from Lucena City, the provincial capital.
Meanwhile, three more fatalities from COVID-19, two of them elderlies, were also recorded in Quezon on Sunday.
In its 5 p.m. bulletin (Oct. 18), the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) revealed that the latest fatalities are from the towns of Sariaya, Mauban, and Infanta.
The local government of Sariaya identified the fatality as a 69-year-old male, with pre-existing diabetes and hypertension ailments. He was listed as the 10th COVID-19 mortality in the said town.
The patient died from “severe pneumonia and CVA bleeding”. CVA or cerebrovascular accident is the medical term for a stroke.
The fatality from Mauban, the third in the locality, was only identified as an 82-year-old female from Barangay Lual. No added details were provided by the local government.
In Infanta, local authorities said the latest mortality was a 57-year-old male from Barangay Miswa. The 4th fatality from the locality died from a heart stroke.
The death toll in the province rose to 92. At least 26 of them died between Oct. 1 and 18.
As of Monday morning, Quezon, which is still under modified general community quarantine, logged 3,060 COVID-19 cases, of which 1,069 are active.
The province recorded 1,899 recoveries.