Quezon COVID-19 watch: Death toll at 40; 1,234 total cases

LUCENA CITY – Two more Quezon residents  from Mauban and Real succumbed to the coronavirus disease 2019  (COVID-19) and increased the death toll  to 40, the Integrated Provincial Health Office said Saturday afternoon.

Governor Danilo Suarez announced on Facebook on Saturday that some provincial government workers who had been distributing relief goods and other form of assistance to the pandemic victims contracted the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

He said the IPHO and the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force immediately conducted the necessary safety protocols to prevent the spread of the virus among provincial government employees.

Suarez did not provide additional details.

Former provincial board member Raquel Mendoza, who now works in one of the provincial offices and has always been part of the distribution team, admitted in a Facebook post that she contracted COVID-19.

Mendoza said she was asymptomatic and presently under quarantine in an isolation facility in Gumaca town where she resides.

Quezon, which reverted to modified general community quarantine status, has recorded 1,234 cases.   One hundred fifty five of the cases were recorded from September 1 to 5.

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