Patient recovery wipes Quezon island town’s COVID-19 slate clean | Inquirer News

Patient recovery wipes Quezon island town’s COVID-19 slate clean

By: - Correspondent / @dtmallarijrINQ
/ 10:31 PM July 08, 2020

LUCENA CITY—The only COVID-19 patient in the town of Perez, Quezon province has recovered, authorities reported on Wednesday (July 8).

In a 5 p.m. report, the Quezon public information office (QPIO) said Perez is now coronavirus-free.

The cured patient contracted coronavirus from the first patient in Alabat town on June 25, while the first patient was on isolation in the island-town off the Pacific Ocean.

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Alabat town has six cases but one of them had already recovered while one died.

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Alabat Island has three towns – Alabat, Perez and Quezon. But only the town of Quezon had been coronavirus-free until Perez’s lone patient recovered.

Quezon, now under modified general community quarantine, has a total of 184 COVID-19 cases, 140 recoveries and 11 fatalities.

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Health authorities are still keeping watch over 33 persons suspected of carrying the virus but all isolated in medical facilities. At least 47 are on home quarantine.

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