COVID -19 tallied its biggest single day surge yet on September 23 when 46 confirmed patients were added to the list of active cases, one case higher than the 45 new cases registered in Pangasinan more than a week earlier on September 15.

But on that day too, a 71-year-old woman from Dagupan City died on arrival at the Region 1 Medical Center after she first underwent a swab test as part of the admission procedure where she was later confirmed to be positive for COVID-19.

Another  57-yer old woman from Dagupan died of COVID-19 the next day at R1MC, raising the death toll of the city from the disease to four although the Public Information Office of Dagupan claimed seven COVID-19 patients already died.

They were actually among the five  COVID-19 patients who died last week, effectively raising the number of coronavirus fatalities so far in Pangasinan to 27, based on the provincewide monitoring of the PHO.

The latest update released by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) as of 6:00 a.m. on September 25 showed the number of active cases in Pangasinan confined in isolation facilities and hospitals now reached 297.

So far, 782 COVID-19 cases were already logged since the start of the pandemic, Of the number, at least 473 patients have recovered. On September 25, PHO reported that 11 patients recovered.

The other fatalities last week were a 47-year old woman from Urdaneta City who died on September 21 but was asymptomatic when she was confined in the LGU isolation facility with no symptom at all the day before; a 46-year-old man from Bolinao who died in a hospital on September 19 and was observed to have a shortness of breath and asthma; and a 60-year-old man from Binalonan who died on September 18 and also experienced shortness of breath and fever.

While the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases were on a sharp incline during the period September 18 to 24, the biggest number of recoveries at 17 were recorded by PHO on September 22 as against 12 newly confirmed cases registered that day.

The data shows that as of September 25, Dagupan City continued to be the epicenter of COVID-19 in Pangasinan with 86 cases, eight of which were registered on September 23 when the new cases provincewide surged to a new record high of 46.

The youngest of the eight new confirmed cases from Dagupan that day was a one-year-old baby boy.

Calasiao now trails Dagupan with 17 active cases, followed by Binmaley (16), Bayambang (15), Malasiqui (16), Mangaldan (13), Lingayen (10), Sta. Barbara (10), and Bugallon  (10).

Up until September 25, only 12 towns of Pangasinan or 25 percent were without any active COVID-19 case. These are Agno, Aguilar, Alcala, Anda, Bani, Burgos, Dasol, San Jacinto, San Quintin, Sto. Tomas, Umingan, and Sta. Maria.

The PHO confirmed that of the 48 towns and cities of Pangasinan, only Dasol had not had COVID-19 case.

And so far, the COVID-19 contagion has spread to 36 towns and cities, or 75 percent of the province. (Leonardo Micua)

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