Cagayan Valley, Bulacan Covid cases alarmingly up

CAGAYAN VALLEY has recorded a spike in the number of coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 cases.

The Dept. of Health regional office said new cases were recorded in Alcala, Cagayan as well as in Naguilian, Quezon, San Agustin, San Isidro and San Manuel in Isabela Tuesday.

An overseas Filipino worker (OFW), a native of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya who arrived at the Clark International Airport from Qatar, was quarantined in an isolation facility in Pampanga.

A resident of Rizal, Cagayan was quarantined at the We Heal as One Center-Philippine Arena in Bulacan.

The DOH said eight cases, mostly returning locally stranded individuals (LSIs) and OFWs, were being added to the list of patients in Cagayan Valley everyday.

There are now 177 cases in the region from only 120 on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Bulacan recorded 49 new cases on Monday.

The provincial health office said Malolos recorded 12 cases; Balagtas, eight; Bulakan, six; Marilao and Bocaue, four each; San Jose del Monte and Calumpit, three each; Obando and Hagonoy, two each, and Meycauayan City, Sta. Maria, Pandi, San Rafael and Baliwag, one each.

The confirmed cases in Bulacan has risen to 689. At least 405 are active cases while 246 have recovered.

Almost 36 percent of the confirmed Covid-19 cases in Bulacan were from San Jose del Monte with 136; Marilao, 78; Malolos, 61, and Meycauayan, 50.

In Pangasinan, Bani Mayor Gwen Palafox-Yamamoto barred non-residents from entering the town after a visitor from Zambales was found infected with the virus.

Yamamoto placed Zones 4 and 7 in Barangay San Vicente on lockdown and lifted it Friday. -- By Raymund Catindig, Ramon Efren Lazaro and Eva Visperas