Quezon logs 15 new COVID-19 patients; Active cases jump to 49

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LUCENA CITY—Quezon province on Tuesday, July 12, recorded 15 new COVID-19 infections, the highest single-day tally since March, provincial health authorities reported.

The Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) reported that as of 5 pm. Tuesday, Quezon had 49 active cases from only 20 at the start of the month.

The IPHO did not provide information on the COVID-19 variants of the active cases in the province.

The 13 municipalities with infected cases are Sariaya (11 cases), Tiaong (8), Lucena City (7), Candelaria (7), Tayabas City (5), Pagbilao (3), Lucban (2), Real (1), Unisan (1), Dolores (1), San Antonio (1), Agdangan, (1) and Atimonan (1).

On June 3, only Lucena, the capital of Quezon, had active COVID-19 cases with two recorded infected residents then.

This month, Quezon has logged 79 new cases and 49 recoveries. On Tuesday, Lucena listed one fatality.

In June, the province recorded 52 COVID-19 cases; May, 14; April, 21; March, 88; and February 772 during the height of the highly infectious Omicron variant.

Dr. Tiong Eng Roland Tan, IPHO chief, said the recent spike in active COVID-19 cases in the province was caused by the drop in pandemic restrictions and the public complacency in observing health protocols.

The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases placed Lucena, a highly urbanized city in Quezon, and 14 other municipalities in the province under alert level 1, the most lenient in the five-tier alert status, until July 15.

The rest of Quezon’s 26 localities will remain under alert level 2.

As of July 12, Quezon has recorded 33,006 COVID-19 cases, 31,396 recoveries, and 1,561 deaths since the pandemic began in March 2020.

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