LUCENA CITY –– The City of San Pablo in Laguna province has 13 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients on Wednesday, health authorities said.
A 73-year-old man also died from COVID-19, bringing the death toll in the city to 44, said a report from the city’s Anti-COVID-19 Task Force posted on Facebook at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17.
The fatality from Barangay San Gabriel died four days after he tested positive for COVID-19.
The report said the 13 new patients include two women ages
82 and 67. They were exposed separately to virus carriers and are now in isolation.
The new cases brought to 98 the total active carriers in the city as of March 17.
San Pablo, which is under modified general community quarantine, has logged 1,368 COVID-19 cases and 1,226 recoveries since the pandemic was declared in March last year.
Healthcare workers in the city continue to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday.
A total of 152 medical and other frontline workers at the San Pablo City General Hospital were given the first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 15.
AstraZeneca vaccines were also injected into frontliners at the San Pablo City Medical Center on March 17.
For the whole of Laguna, 21,454 cases were recorded since last year, with 19,870 recoveries and 549 deaths, said Gov. Ramil Hernandez in a Facebook post on Thursday, quoting a provincial health office report.
As of Thursday morning, the province has 1,035 active cases, the report said.