THREE IN PANGASINAN

SIXTEEN Covid-Delta variants have been detected in Region 1: 13 in Ilocos Norte and three in Pangasinan but all the cases have already clinically recovered and had already been quarantined for 14 days.

This was pointed out by Dr. Rheuel Bobis, DOH regional office’s COVID-19 focal person, during the virtual presser of the Philippine Information Agency 1 on August 17, adding that before the recovered Delta positives can be released from their isolation, they are required to submit negative RT-PCR tests.

He said there were only six Delta cases detected last week, five in Ilocos Norte and one in Pangasinan but eight additional cases were registered in Ilocos Norte and two in Pangasinan.

The Regional Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), endorsed the Executive Order of Ilocos Norte Governor Matthew Marcos Manotoc placing the whole of Ilocos Norte, except the towns of Adams and Carasi, under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ).

Bobis said like the six previously detected Delta cases, the nine new Delta cases in Ilocos Norte and in Pangasinan were immediately isolated after they were identified.

When located, all the Delta cases were asymptomatic but their close contacts up to the third generation were also located and placed in isolation.

He said no other cases in the region were endorsed to the Department of Health by the Philippine Genome Center, belying a fake news that there is another Delta case found in La Union.

Bobis said as of August 16, there were 37,783 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Region 1: 36,054 (78.7%) have recovered while 8,807 (19.2 %) are active cases and 953 patients (2.1%) have died.

Of the active cases, the highest number of cases were in Ilocos Norte, 4,754 (30.25%) of the region’s total 8,807 active cases.

On the rising cases in the region, Bobis revealed that the region’s average daily attack rate last week was 574 compared to 315 per day during the first COVID-19 surge in April this year.

The youngest active case recorded was one month old while the oldest was 100 years old and the average age of patients is 36 years old.

The most affected age group is from 29-55 years old which comprises 5,462 cases (11%) of the total COVID-19 cases in the region. (Leonardo Micua)

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