38 more cops catch COVID

Thirty-eight more Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel have contracted the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19.

PNP spokesman Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac said test results released on Friday night showed that 33 of the latest cases, two of them police officials, are assigned in Metro Manila.

Four are assigned in Central Visayas and one in Calabarzon.

Banac said the number of confirmed cases in the PNP is now 1,044.

The death toll remains at nine while 462 or 44.25 percent of the patients have recovered.

Quarantine breach

Meanwhile, locally stranded individuals (LSIs) who reportedly breached quarantine protocols are among the new confirmed cases in Isabela and Cagayan.

Purok 4 and 5 in Barangay Manaring, Ilagan City, where an LSI who tested positive for the virus on Friday had interactions, were placed on lockdown.

A 12-year-old boy is among the latest confirmed cases in the city. The boy is also a returnee who traveled to Southern Leyte and Manila.

The Cagayan Provincial Health Office said a pregnant teacher, 29; her daughter, 6, and her mother, 68, who arrived from Payatas, Quezon City in Barangay Maddarulug in Enrile town on Thursday, tested positive for the virus on Friday.

The patients also reportedly breached quarantine protocols.

Bulacan cases near 600

In Bulacan, 26 new cases were reported. There are now 594 cases in the province.

Bocaue town recorded 11 new cases; Meycauayan City, four; Marilao, three; Angat and Malolos, two each, and Calumpit, San Rafael and San Jose del Monte, one each.

The highest number of cases was recorded in San Jose del Monte at 119.

In Bataan, five returning overseas Filipino workers are among the seven new cases.

Bataan now has 247 cases, 69 of them active.

Baguio City has five active cases after one was added to the list yesterday.

Zamboanga City recorded 36 new cases, bringing the number of infections to 105.

The local inter-agency task force said 23 of the new cases are LSIs who arrived from Manila on July 2.

The city also recorded 12 recoveries and a fatality.

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