COVID-19 threatens to surge anew
26 NEW CASES LOGGED
THE predicted post-election surge of the coronavirus in Pangasinan could be starting with the reported 26 new cases over the week that ended on June 1. /.
Worse, two persons were confirmed to have died from COVID-19 disease that included a six-year old boy in Mangaldan and another in San Manuel town.
Health officials have scrambled to conduct contact tracing on close contacts of the two fatalities in a bid to isolate them to prevent the spread of this disease.
From just four cases last May 21, COVID-19 cases steadily rose to an average of three cases a day but a day prior to May 21, no case was registered whatsoever for the first time.
With the cases in double digit, health officials called on people not to relax their guard and to still maintain minimum health protocols because three sub-variants of Omicron have already entered the country.
The double digit number of new cases was enough to alert local health officials to prepare for more active cases in the province.
Earlier, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan invited the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to its May 27 session for updates on the situation.
Rhodyn Oro, vice chairman of the provincial IATF-EID, reported that Pangasinan remains under Alert Level 1 classification and cited last week’s daily average of cases was only three, while six cases were the highest number of cases logged for a week recently.
He said the attack rate of the disease was still only 4.06 from May 15 to 22.
Oro reported that there are still 96 isolation facilities in the province with a total of 1,372 beds and not a single bed in these 96 isolation facilities is occupied because the remaining 23 active cases are either on home quarantine and or in hospitals.
Rhoda Aday-an, who represented Provincial Health Officer Dr. Ana de Guzman during the Question Hour of the SP, said town and city health offices were doing house-to-house vaccination as there are still 359,711 of targeted individuals that remain unvaccinated.
Meanwhile, the PHO said that as of June 1, the 16 remaining COVID cases were in Mangatarem (7), San Carlos City (4), Lingayen (2), San Manuel (2), Dagupan City (2), and one each in Aguilar, Bolinao, Calasiao, Laoac, Malasiqui, Mapandan, Pozorrubio, Rosales, San Nicolas and Urdaneta City. (Leonardo Micua)
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