4 LGUs in metro report 134 new Covid-19 cases
HE Cebu City Health Department (CHD) recorded 73 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on Saturday, June 13, 2020.
TThe CHD also recorded seven new laboratory-negative or recoveries from Barangays Camputhaw (one) and Mambaling (one) and the Cebu City Jail (five), bringing the total laboratory-negative in the city to 1,858. This is equivalent to a 54 percent recovery rate.
One additional death was also recorded, bringing the total number of deaths to 37. The latest fatality was from Barangay Basak Pardo.
The new Covid-19 cases were reported in Barangays Basak Pardo (two), Basak San Nicolas (five), Budlaan (one), Camputhaw (nine), Capitol Site (one), Duljo Fatima (two), Guadalupe (one); Guba (one), Hipodromo (one), Inayawan (four), Kalunasan (one), Kasambagan (one), Kinasang-an (two), Labangon (one), Lahug (three), Lorega San Miguel (two), Mabolo (one), Mambaling (three), Pahina San Nicolas (one), Pahina Central (one), Pit-os (one), Punta Princesa (one), Sambag 2 (three), Tejero (three), Tinago (one) Tisa (four) and in the Cebu City Jail (17).
Cebu City now has a total of 3,434 Covid-19 positive patients, but only 1,576 are active cases.
Mandaue City recorded 53 confirmed Covid-19 cases, all coming from the community.
The Mandaue City Public Information Office said all the new confirmed Covid-19 cases are the first-generation contacts of previous Covid-19 patients.
The new cases are from Barangay Subangdaku (14), Barangay Alang-Alang (one), Barangay Centro (one), Barangay Tabok (16), Barangay Mantuyong (seven), Barangay Bakilid (two), Barangay Canduman (two), Barangay Looc (two), Barangay Casuntingan (one), Barangay Ibabao-Estancia (one) and Barangay Cabancalan (six). Mandaue City now has 401 confirmed Covid-19 cases with 95 recoveries and seven deaths.
In Lapu-Lapu City, six people were found to be positive for Covid-19.
On his official Facebook page, Mayor Junard Chan, who himself tested positive for the new coronavirus last Thursday, said the new patients are residents of Barangays Pajo, Mactan, Maribago, Pajac, Gun-ob and Pusok.
The six have been transferred to isolation facilities with their close contacts now swabbed and placed on home quar ant i ne.
Talisay City Mayor Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr., for his part, announced that two more people from his city tested positive for Covid-19.
Gullas said the two new cases are a 20-year-old health care worker from Barangay Cansojong who works in a private hospital in Cebu City and a 29-yearold woman from San Roque who gave birth in a government hospital in Cebu City on Friday, June 12.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Talisay City has reached 106, with 30 recoveries and 15 deaths.
---(JJL, JKV, KFD)