9 kids, 4 senior citizens contract COVID-19 in San Pablo City

LUCENA CITY – Nine children and four senior citizens contracted the highly-contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in San Pablo City in Laguna province, health authorities said Sunday night, April 11.

The city’s Anti-COVID-19 Task Force in a bulletin issued at 6 p.m. said the young virus carriers – seven girls and two boys, ages between 1 to 8 years old – were among the latest 47 COVID-19 patients in the city. The eight young virus carriers are under home isolation.

Authorities also reported that four senior citizens – two males and two females, ages 65 to 86 – also got infected by the SARS-Cov2, the virus that causes the disease.

Report also said four other elderlies were among the 20 latest virus carriers who have recovered from COVID-19.

San Pablo has logged 1,951 COVID-19 cases and 1,529 recoveries since the pandemic was declared in March last year.

The city still has 358 active virus carriers which were only 266 on April 1, indicating the continuous surge of more virus carriers in the locality.

On Sunday, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced that Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Rizal and Laguna have been downgraded from strict enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to a less stringent modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) from April 12 to 30.

San Pablo Mayor Lorenzo Amante has appealed to residents to strictly follow all regulations being imposed by the national Inter-Agency Task Force to curb the rise of new cases.

Earlier, the Department of Health (DOH) provided a modular 44-bed capacity tent each to San Pablo City General Hospital and San Pablo City District Hospital to be used for emergency medical care and extension of the health facilities.

Meanwhile, the city government has been continuously distributing emergency cash aid or “ayuda” to qualified individuals in every barangay.

Senior citizens and those classified as person with disability (PWD) were advised not to go to the assigned payout center in their respective villages as the money will be delivered to their homes.