Bulacan records only 141 active COVID-19 cases, lowest since last year

CITY OF MALOLOS–Bulacan has recorded its lowest number of active COVID-19 cases in one year with 141 logged on Friday.

Last week, 519 active cases were recorded by local health officials in Bulacan.

Dr. Hijordis Marushka Celis, Bulacan COVID-19 Task Force vice chair, said the 378 have already recovered.

Of the 141 active cases, 13 are admitted in hospitals, 28 are in quarantine facilities and 100 are in home isolation.

Bulacan has recorded its lowest 467 active cases on December 16, 2020, Celis reported.

Meanwhile, Bulacan local government has administered the first dose of COVID-19 jabs to 1,928,250 residents or 79.60 percent of the province’s 2.8 million population targeted for herd immunity while 1,487,818 or 64 percent have received both doses.

Bulacan has almost 3.3 million population.

Governor Daniel Fernando, Bulacan COVID-19 Task Force vice chair, however, said the province is increasing its immunity target to 80 to 90 percent by end of the year or until January 2022 in preparation for possible further easing of restrictions to Alert Level 1.

In Pandi town, the municipal health office is already vaccinating 12 to 17 year-olds from other nearby towns as the town already reached more than 150 percent of target residents in the said age bracket.

Celis said Pandi is the first town in Bulacan that had reached the 70 percent herd immunity as it already recorded 96 percent.

“In Pandi as of December 1, 6 a.m., we have 96.87 percenf cumulative at least first dose, first dose for both adult and 12 to 17 year-olds. Fully vaccinated is 71.55 percenr,” Celis told Inquirer.

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