LUCENA CITY — The death toll from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Quezon province rose to 128 after three more patients died on Friday and Saturday.
Records from the Integrated Provincial Health Office as of 5 p.m. of Nov. 14 listed the deaths of two validated virus carriers in this city.
On Friday afternoon, the IPHO also reported the demise of a COVID-19 patient in Sariaya town.
No other details on the fatalities were provided.
Of the 128 deaths, at least 42 of the fatalities were recorded during the month of October. Lucena City, the capital of the province, had the highest fatalities with 41.
Quezon, still under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) status, logged a total of 4,597 COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Grace Santiago, IPHO head, in a briefing on Wednesday about the COVID-19 situation in the province before the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force attended by Governor Danilo Suarez and World Health Organization representative Dr. Albert Dominguez, also reported that at least 411 health care workers have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic broke out early March. Three of the infected health workers, most of them working in government hospitals, had died.
The youngest among the infected, according to Santiago, is a two-day-old baby among the 49 other infants less than a year-old who also contracted the virus.
The oldest recorded COVID-19 patient in the province is 99-year-old among the 563 elderlies, age 60 and above, who were also infected.
At least 38 pregnant women in the province also contracted the coronavirus.
Showing statistics, Santiago attributed the continuous rise of COVID-19 cases in the province with the opening of borders among localities during the lenient general community quarantine (GCQ) and the most relaxed MGCQ protocols.
As of Saturday, Quezon logged a total of 3,429 recoveries and 1,040 active virus carriers. There are 290 suspected carriers of the virus who are in medical and isolation facilities. At least 303 others are on home quarantine.