Quezon province has 4 new COVID-19 patients
LUCENA CITY –– After three days of zero coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, four new “positive” patients were reported by the Quezon public information office (QPIO) on Tuesday morning.
Three new COVID-19 patients were in Lucena City and another one from Catanauan town, the first recorded case in the said locality, the QPIO revealed in its 8 a.m. bulletin.
Quezon, now under general community quarantine, has 102 confirmed COVID-19 cases on its record, a spike from its last list of 98 on May 30.
At least 73 of the recorded COVID-19 patients in the province have recovered but eight others had died.
The province now has a total of 21 active virus carriers, all confined in a medical facility.
Lucena City has 14 active virus carriers.
Article continues after this advertisementThe surge in the number of COVID-19 patients in this city should not be a cause for alarm, Lucena Mayor Roderick Alcala earlier maintained.
Article continues after this advertisementThe spike in the cases is the result of the fast turnaround of test results from a COVID-19 laboratory in the city that started operations on May 19, he insisted.
Local health authorities still monitor 78 suspected as COVID-19 carriers, who are confined in different hospitals in Quezon, while 65 others are on home quarantine.
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