SUAL, Pangasinan – The Pangasinan Provincial Health Office (PHO) has recorded 20 recoveries and 14 new confirmed cases for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on Saturday and Sunday.
In a Facebook post on Monday, the PHO - through the Provincial Information Office (PIO), said the recovered patients are a 26-year-old male from Sual town, a 50-year-old male from Manaoag town, a 56-year-old male from San Nicolas town, a 32-year-old male from San Carlos City, a 32-year-old male from San Quintin town, a 50-year-old male from Sta. Barbara town, a 30-year-old female from San Nicolas town, a 57-year-old male from Dagupan City, a 67-year-old female from Binalonan town, a 38-year-old male, and a five-month-old baby boy, both are from Asingan town.
The other recoveries were a 31-year-old male from Bautista town, a 34-year-old female from San Nicolas town, a 44-year-old male from San Carlos City, a 24-year-old male and a 23-year-old female, both from Laoac town, a 29-year-old male from San Carlos City, a 25-year-old male from Basista town, a 73-year-old male from San Carlos City, and a 62-year-old female from Basista town.
Meanwhile, the PHO said five of the new confirmed cases from Sual town are a 49-year-old male, a 42-year-old female, a 25-year-old female, a 34-year-old female, and a 39-year-old male.
Four patients from Urdaneta City --a nine-year-old male, a 15-year-old female, a 14-year-old male, and an 18-year-old female-- were also among the new cases.
Other confirmed cases are a 36-year-old female from Aguilar town, a 41-year-old male from Bugallon town, a 49-year-old male from Calasiao town, a 43-year-old male from Labrador town, and a 44-year-old male from Umingan town, it added.
The PHO said a 77-year-old male from Rosales town who was admitted on July 31 is the latest Covid-19 death recorded in the province.
In a radio interview over Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan on Monday, PHO chief Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman, attributed the increased number of cases in the province to the expanded mass testing being conducted for front-liners, other high-risk sectors, locally stranded individuals (LSIs) who arrived in the province, as well as close contacts of Covid-19 patients.
She said 29.8 percent of the confirmed active cases are LSIs while 22.6 percent are close contacts of the confirmed cases.
“No need to revert the quarantine status since based on the zoning containment classification, Pangasinan is not yet in the critical zone, but those barangays we have identified under critical zone were placed under enhanced community quarantine or lockdown,” de Guzman said.
For a province to be placed under the critical zone, she added 25 percent of its municipalities and cities are under the critical zone, which is not the case for the province so far.
As of 9 a.m. on August 3, the province has a total of 235 confirmed Covid-19 cases, 157 of them have recovered, 67 are confined, and 11 have died. (PNA)
