LUCENA CITY — Quezon province recorded another high number of fatalities due to COVID-19 in a single day on Wednesday.
The Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) bulletin at 5 p.m. on June 9, showed that 12 virus carriers succumbed to the disease.
The latest fatalities are from Candelaria town with 3; and Gumaca, Sariaya, Tiaong, Unisan, Macalelon, Mulanay, Real, Lucban, and Infanta, with one each.
The COVID-19 death toll in the province now stands at 575. Fifty of them died from June 1 to 9, and 125 died in May.
Lucena, the capital city of Quezon, has the highest number of fatalities at 97.
On May 23, Quezon saw its highest record of COVID-19 deaths in a single day …
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