Only 5 towns, 2 cities infected by COVID-19
FLATTENING THE CURVE
AS of 9:00 a.m. on April 17, the COVID-19 infection in Pangasinan is closer to flattening the curve after determining that only two cities and five towns are infected while 41 towns and cities are already free of the coronavirus.
The updated statistics released by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) show that of the 36 confirmed COVID-19 cases compiled so far, 13 had recovered, 14 are still confined in various hospitals and only nine had died.
Almost all of the PUIs that died were from other causes, not COVID-19, hence, this led to the conclusion that many of the towns were not infected after all, that there was no human and community transmission in the barangays.
The towns of Malasiqui, San Fabian Basista, Urbiztondo and Alaminos City, that earlier registered COVID-19 deaths were delisted as infected towns, making 41 towns and cities as COVID-19 free, according to the PHO statistics.
Listed by PHO as still COVID-19 infected as of April 16 are Bayambang, Binalonan, Dagupan City, Laoac, Lingayen, Rosales and Urdaneta City.
The other COVID-19-free towns are: Agno, Aguilar, Alcala, Anda, Asingan, Balungao, Bani,Bautista, Binmaley, Bolinao, Bugallon, Burgos, Calasiao, Dasol, Infanta, Labrador, Mabini, Mangaldan, Malasiqui, Mangaldan, Mangatarem, Mapandan, Manaoag, Natividad, Pozorrubio, San Carlos City, San Jacinto, San Manuel, San Nicolas, San Quintin, Sta. Barbara, Sta. Maria, Sto. Tomas, Sual, Sison, Tayug, Umingan, Urbiztondo and Villasis.
Meanwhile, of the 161 Patients under Investigation (PUI), 86 had recovered, 49 were confined and 29 had died.
The 13 COVID-19 patients that recovered are from Malasiqui (2) and Dagupan City (2), Pozorrubio (1), Bayambang (1), Rosales (1), Urdaneta City (1), Bugallon (1), Infanta (1), Asingan (1), Sto. Tomas (1) and Alaminos City (1).
Those who recovered include two in Dagupan City (a 50-year old female from Lucao and a 37-year old male from Bonuan Gueset) discharged from Region 1 Medical Center on April 15; a 50-year-old female from Malasiqui discharged from the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital on April 7; a 68-year-old male from Pozorrubio discharged from the Medical City in Pasig City; a 75-year-old female from Bayambang confined at R1MC; a 70-year-old male from Rosales confined at the Urdaneta District Hospital and a 75-year-old male from Infanta confined at R1MCV.
The 14 who are still confined from are cities of Dagupan (3) and Urdaneta (3), Bayambang (2), Lingayen (2), Binalonan (1), Laoac (1) and Rosales (1).
The nine COVID-19 patients who died were from Rosales, Urbiztondo, Basista, Bayambang, Malasiqui, Lingayen, San Fabian, Rosales, Dagupan and Alaminos. (Leonardo Micua)
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