4 cops among 39 new COVID-19 cases in Zambales
Police personnel and members of Bantay Bayan check motorists passing the boundary of Calumpit, Bulacan and Apalit, Pampanga provinces on Monday morning, March 22, 2021. The Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases placed NCR, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, and Laguna under general community quarantine from March 22 to April 4. Niño Jesus Orbeta/Philippine Daily Inquirer (file photo)
SAN ANTONIO, Zambales––Thirty-nine new cases of COVID-19 were reported in this province on Thursday (July 15), pushing the total number of its active cases to 378.
Provincial health director Dr. Noel Bueno said among the new patients were four police officers in the capital town of Iba.
The other latest cases include two fishermen and two workers inside the Subic Bay Freeport, the virus data showed.
Bueno said 11 of the infected patients recovered on the same day.
To date, the province has recorded a total of 3,805 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic was declared last year, with 3,331 of them having recovered and 95 died. INQ
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