Olongapo City, which remains under COVID-19 Alert Level 3, has logged one more death related to the viral disease on Monday, Jan. 17. | PHOTO: Joanna Rose Aglibot
OLONGAPO CITY–A 76-year-old woman became the latest COVID-19 fatality in this city amid its growing number of infections, local data showed on Monday, Jan. 17.
The elderly resident, who was unvaccinated, died on Jan. 16, although the COVID-19 test result came out five days later.
Her death raised the city’s total fatalities related to the viral disease to 320, data from the local COVID-19 task force show.
The city also logged 55 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, which brought to 657 its active infections.
On the same day, the city reported 31 new recoveries and 13 suspected cases.
Since the pandemic struck in 2020, the city has registered 6,155 COVID-19 patients, with 5,178 recoveries.