Essential workers are among the COVID-19 vaccine recipients during a mobile vaccination in Subic town, Zambales province. (Photo courtesy of the Subic municipal health office)
SAN ANTONIO, Zambales––At least 90 more COVID-19 patients were logged in this province on Wednesday, Sept. 7, raising its total active cases to 931.
Provincial health records show that Zambales now has 6,779 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic broke out last year.
At least 31 patients recovered from the disease on Wednesday, pushing to 5,931 the recoveries in the province.
No new fatalities were listed on the same day, which kept its death toll at 217.
At least 119,779 residents in the province have been vaccinated against COVID-19, but only 58,956 completed two doses.
The province needs to inoculate 413,000 residents or 70 percent of the 590,800 population to achieve herd immunity.