By Raymund Catindig
Several provinces in
Northern Luzon have recorded a surge in coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19
cases.
The
Department of Health said 17 cases were recorded in La Union Monday.
Eight of the
cases are from Caba, five in San Fernando and one each in Aringay, Bauang,
Balaoan and San Juan.
A 14-year-old
boy from Aringay is the youngest patient while the oldest was a
64-year-old woman from Caba.
Caba Mayor
Philip Cesar Crispino placed six villages in the town, where the highest number
of cases was recorded, under lockdown.
La Union now
has 46 cases, 21 of them active.
In Cagayan
Valley, the number of confirmed cases rose to 206, with 16 cases added
yesterday.
Tuguegarao
City recorded two cases while Solana, Peñablanca, Tuao, Camalaniugan and Iguig,
all in Cagayan province, logged one each.
Six
construction workers, all residents of Ilagan City in Isabela, also tested
positive for COVID-19.
Kasibu,
Alfonso Castañeda and Dupax del Norte towns in Nueva Vizcaya recorded one
case each.
The number of
confirmed cases in Baguio City is now 10 after two were recorded yesterday.
Mountain
Province recorded its second case on Thursday night.
The
provincial health office said the patient traveled to Manila on July 8 to
process his travel documents to work as a seafarer.
Contact
tracing in Samoki, Bontoc is ongoing.
In
Pangasinan, three cases were recorded yesterday. The province now has 134
confirmed cases.
Meanwhile,
Bulacan Vice Gov. Wilhelmino Sy Alvarado confirmed that 12 inmates and six
personnel of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) office in
the province tested positive for the virus.
The CIDG
office has been on lockdown since Thursday.
Alvarado said
the public attorney’s office aside from the dialysis center of the Bulacan
Medical Center were on lockdown after some personnel were infected.
The three
government offices are in the premises of the provincial capitol compound.
Bulacan
reported 18 new cases on Thursday, bringing the number of confirmed cases to
763. -- Ramon Efren Lazaro, Eva Visperas, Cesar Ramirez
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