LEGAZPI CITY —- At least 43 residents in this city got infected with COVID-19 in a single day Thursday, its highest number of new cases recorded since March last year.
The newly recorded cases brought up to 316 the number of active COVID-19 cases in the capital city of Albay province as of Thursday, with one death.
The city’s COVID-19 tracker shows that it has recorded 913 cumulative cases since March last year, with 695 recoveries and 21 deaths.
Mayor Noel Rosal, who chairs the city’s Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF), said they had dispatched additional frontline health workers to step up the contact tracing process.
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