A student of the City College of San Fernando in Pampanga province gets vaccinated against COVID-19. (Photo from the City of San Fernando government)
MABALACAT CITY, Pampanga––The active COVID-19 cases in the City of San Fernando went down to 93 on Sunday, Nov. 7, from 244 a week ago.
The city government recorded four new cases, 64 recoveries, and two deaths. The fatalities were residents of Del Pilar and Juliana villages.
All four new COVID-19 cases were from Dolores village, which has the most active cases at 21.
San Jose village has the second-highest active cases at nine, followed by Del Carmen at seven.
Officials of the capital city attributed the downtrend in the COVID-19 cases to the continuing vaccination of residents.
As of Nov. 4, Thursday, 135,510 or 56 percent of the 242,102 target adult population have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while 182,362 have received the initial dose of the vaccines.
The city government has also vaccinated several college students and started registering for inoculating 12 to 17 year-age minors.