LUCENA CITY––This capital city of Quezon province has seven active COVID-19 cases as of Dec. 16, a big drop from the triple-digit infections it logged two months ago, the city public information office (PIO) announced on social media.
Quezon itself recorded one new COVID-19 case on Thursday in Sariaya town.
Citing the latest report from the City Health Office, the PIO disclosed that seven cases were logged from Dec. 1 to 16.
In November, the CHO recorded 38 COVID-19 cases, a decline from 627 in October and 880 in September.
On March 7, the city also brought down the number of active virus carriers to seven. But due to the public’s lax enforcement of safety protocols and the high transmission rate of the Delta variant, the single-day tally peaked at 572 cases on Oct. 13.
Lucena recorded 5,575 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic struck in March last year, with 5,345 recoveries and 223 fatalities.
The vaccine rollout in the city showed that as of Dec. 10, at least 220,313 residents had been inoculated against COVID-19.
The CHO reported that 85,756 residents have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease, or about 46 percent of the target population, while 134,557 city folk have received their first dose.
Lucena needs to inoculate fully 195,246 people to achieve herd immunity.
The Quezon Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO), on the other hand, listed four recoveries in Lucena and one each in Atimonan and Pagbilao towns as of Dec. 16.
From Dec. 1 to 16, the province logged 39 new COVID-19 patients from 211 in November, 2,115 in October, and 5,342 in September.
With the continuing decline in new COVID-19 cases, the province had been placed under Alert Level 2 until Dec. 31.
The active COVID-19 cases in the province also significantly dropped to 27 as of Dec. 16, from 2,570 on Sept. 21.
The IPHO reported that 30 of the 41 local governments in the province no longer have COVID-19 infected individuals as of Dec. 16.
The COVID-19 death toll in Quezon now stands at 1,478, with Lucena topping the list at 223. INQ
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