DAVAO ORIENTAL -The province has posted a significant decrease in the number of its active Covid cases as it continues to implement stricter measures aimed at curbing the pandemic.
Citing a daily reduction covering September 20 to 21 this month, the province noted the nearly a hundred reduction from 820 cases in September 20 to 727 cases the following day. It is attributing the significant reduction in the number of active Covid cases to “stricter guidelines and heightened restrictions” being implemented throughout the province.
Since the province was placed under General Community Quarantine with additional restrictions from September 8 to 30, it noted a forty percent reduction of its active Covid cases. As of September 20, 2021, the province has a total of 820 active cases, 145 of whom are admitted at the Covid Hospital while the remaining 675 are being isolated at the isolation facilities.
Among the Local Government Units (LGUs) in the province, the City of Mati has posted a fifty percent reduction of its active Covid cases, from 600 to 337. The number of active Covid cases in the municipalities of Davao Oriental are as follows: Governor Generoso, 93 cases; Caraga, 65; Banaybanay, 63; 61 in San Isidro; Baganga, 58; Lupon, 44; 40 in Tarragona; 25 in Manay; 20 in Boston; and 14 in Cateel.
During a quarterly meeting of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, Governor Nelson Dayanghirang has credited the “strong collaboration” among local government officials and frontliners in fighting the pandemic. The Governor also pointed at the “most important collective discipline” among the people that led to a sustained reduction in the number of active Covid cases in the province. “I hope this will be sustained in the coming days so we would be able to come out alive of this pandemic that continue to wreak havoc in our lives,” says the Governor.
During the meeting, the PTF Covid-19 Action Officer Dr. Reden Bersaldo presented figures on the number of new Covid variants in the province. He says the province has 24 Delta cases, 15 Beta cases, and 10 Alpha cases. He stressed the necessity for the people to continue to observe basic health protocols. He adds that Covid patients must be isolated immediately to contain the fast transmission of the said variants.
Currently, the province of Davao Oriental has a total of 222 Covid deaths, 88 percent of whom are unvaccinated; 7 percent are partially vaccinated, while three percent are fully vaccinated. The highest total number of deaths belong to the age range of 61-70 years old which has 82 deaths; 71 and above with 60 deaths; 51-60, 36 deaths; 41-50, 22 deaths; 31-40, 10 deaths; below 10 years old, 5 deaths; 21-30, 4 deaths; and 11-20 years old, 3 deaths.
Davao Oriental has now a total of 6,840 confirmed cases, 84 percent of them or 5,798 has fully recovered. As of September 19, 2021, the total number of vaccinated individuals in the province has already gone up to 129,681 individuals which is 30.48% of the herd immunity target for the province. By Mark Alvite
