10 more COVID-19 ‘suspects’ die in Quezon province

LUCENA CITY –– Health authorities in Quezon province recorded 10 more deaths related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Wednesday.

In its 10 a.m. bulletin on Dec. 9, the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) disclosed that 10 people suspected of having COVID-19 had died.

Authorities gave no other details about the fatalities.

The total number of mortalities in the province among the “suspects” now reached 145.

The Department of Health (DOH) says a person is a suspected carrier if he or she shows symptoms like fever, cough, or sore throat two weeks after contact with an infected person or persons or had come from an infected place.

Elderlies, those with preexisting ailments, pregnant women, and health-care workers also belong to this group.

The suspected carriers, who died, had either not been tested, or tested but the results were not yet out at the time of death.

The IPHO records showed that at least 384 coronavirus suspects remained confined in different hospitals, and 367 are on home quarantine as of Wednesday.

As of Wednesday morning, the death toll among COVID-19 patients in Quezon, which is under the modified general community quarantine, rose to 169 after three more fatalities were recorded on Monday.

Two of those who died were from Pagbilao, and the other was from Barangay Cotta in Lucena City, the IPHO and the Lucena City public information office disclosed.

No other details on the fatalities were provided.

The province logged a total of 5,672 COVID-19 cases and 4,870 recoveries since the pandemic broke out in early March.

As of Wednesday morning, records from the IPHO showed that the remaining active virus carriers in different parts of the province have dropped to 634.

The highest tally of active COVID-19 cases was recorded on Oct. 31 with 921 and fell to 760 at the end of November.

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