SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — Zambales has logged 34 new recoveries from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Saturday (May 1), raising to 1,551 the total number of people who had recovered from the disease.
Local health data showed that the province has been seeing an 83.4-percent recovery rate out of the 1,858 total COVID-19 infections since last year.
Among the patients who had already been cleared of the virus are a 4-month-old baby and a 74-year-old woman.
Dr. Noel Bueno, provincial health director, said the province also registered 23 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday.
Some of them belong to the same households and contracted the virus from relatives.
In San Felipe town alone, three children- aged 1, 4, and 10- have tested positive for COVID-19 after they were exposed to their virus-infected mother.
Three other children in Botolan town were among the province’s new cases of COVID-19. INQ