LUCENA CITY — Ten more individuals succumbed to COVID-19 in Quezon, bringing the death toll in the province to 615.
The Integrated Provincial Health Office reported Saturday afternoon that Gumaca and Mauban towns listed three fatalities each, Lucena City two and one each in the municipalities of Atimonan and Dolores.
Ninety of the total recorded deaths in the province since the pandemic started last year were recorded this month.
Lucena, the capital city of Quezon, has the most number of fatalities, with 109. Fifteen of them died this month.
The province has been seeing an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases since April, when 2,276 new cases we…
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