Cagayan posts 1,000 Covid cases – OCTA
>> Tuesday, August 31, 2021
By Red Mendoza
TUGUEGARAO CITY -- The province of Cagayan has logged in more than 1,000 cases of Covid-19 for the first time since the pandemic began, eclipsing the 537 daily new cases reported in August 20, according to the independent OCTA Research.
The group also noted that the reproduction number in Tuguegarao City is also increasing to 1.79, while the r-naught for the entire province is at 1.67.
The province's average daily attack rate (ADAR) is now at 30.08 cases per 100,000 population, which is equivalent to a critical incidence rate, with the highest ADAR reported in Tuguegarao City at 73.34, followed by the towns of Ballesteros at 66.38, Baggao at 32.82, and Solana at 26.63.
Among the provinces in the Cagayan Valley region, Cagayan's hospital utilization rate is at 84 percent, while its intensive care unit (ICU) utilization is at 86 percent, the highest in the region.
Batanes is the only province in the region currently under low risk, with its average daily attack rate at 0.79 cases per 100,000 population and virtually zero hospital utilization rate and ICU rate.
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