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Central Visayas reports 261 new Covid-19 cases, 78 recoveries

By John Rey Saavedra

July 3, 2020, 4:21 pm

<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>. Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas Regional Director Jaime Bernadas (left). The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) on Thursday (July 2, 2020) reported 261 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the region with 78 recoveries. <em>(PNA file photo)</em></p>

UPDATE. Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas Regional Director Jaime Bernadas (left). The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) on Thursday (July 2, 2020) reported 261 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the region with 78 recoveries. (PNA file photo)

CEBU CITY – The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) on Thursday reported 261 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the region with 78 recoveries.

Dr. Jaime Bernadas, DOH-7 regional director, said the new recoveries brought the total number to 3,227 while active infections rose to 5,758.

The 78 patients who have recovered stayed either in home isolation or in barangay isolation centers. Of the newly-recovered cases, 61 came from Cebu City.

Most of the active cases in the region are asymptomatic whose infections have not developed any symptoms such as fever, cough, running nose, headache, among others.

Also, some patients have manifested only mild to moderate symptoms which, Bernadas said, only require confinement at the barangay isolation centers.

The 261 new cases were part of the 1,055 tests conducted in the region and examined at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center–Subnational Laboratory and the Cebu TB Reference Laboratory Molecular Facility.

Included in the data were 23 repeat tests on patients who previously tested positive of coronavirus.

Central Visayas has registered a total of 9,309 confirmed cases since January when the contagion was first reported in the region, but only 62 percent (5,758) are active infections while 35 percent have already recovered from the disease.

Active cases are those who tested positive and are still either in admission at hospitals or isolated in home or barangay isolation centers.

Based on the data, Cebu City still has the highest number of active infections at 3,481, with 86 active cases and 61 recoveries.

The city has reported a total of 2,612 recoveries.

Cebu province (excluding highly urbanized cities) has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 active infections at 967 because of 50 new cases registered on Thursday, bringing the aggregate number of confirmed infections to 1,293.

It has a total of 245 recoveries with the addition of 15 newly recovered patients.

Next to Cebu province are the cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu with 635 active infections each.

Mandaue has a total of 881 confirmed cases with 226 recoveries since January, while Lapu-Lapu has 775 total cases with 115 recoveries. Both cities listed only one new recovery each on Thursday.

Bohol has 40 infections with 27 active cases and 12 recoveries, while Negros Oriental has 32 total confirmed cases but only 13 are active cases as it recorded 12 recoveries.

The data also showed that three percent or 324 of the total confirmed infected patients in the region have succumbed to the dreaded disease. (PNA)


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