By Froilan Gallardo
Special Correspondent
THIS city is back to the lesser General Community Quarantine with heightened restrictions following a constant decrease in coronavirus infections the past two weeks.
The National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases through Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the General Community Quarantine status for Cagayan de Oro would cover the period of the whole month of October.
The new quarantine status came as Cagayan de Oro Mayor Oscar Moreno appealed to the IATF to scale down the health protocols.
Moreno said the number of coronavirus cases has steadily gone down in the month of September.
“We saw the consistent continuing (reduction) of our average daily attack rate of Covid-19 cases from 27 percent in the first week of August to 8.75 percent in the last week of September,” Moreno said.
The City Health Office, in its September 29 report, said there were only 47 new infections and two deaths with recoveries reaching 212 patients.
The CHO said only two patients of the 82 cases with the infectious Delta variant are still confined in the city isolation units.
Dr. Ted Yu of the CHO said the 80 patients sick with the Delta variant have already recovered and been sent home.
Yu said they found 229 close contacts of the 82 patients and have immediately isolated them.
He said they also subjected the 229 close contacts to Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction tests and all tested negative of the Delta variant.
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