LUCENA CITY — Quezon province listed a record-high eight deaths from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a single day, health authorities reported Saturday.
In its 10 a.m. bulletin, the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) said two COVID-19 patients in Lucena City and one each from the towns of Sariaya, Unisan, Infanta, Gumaca, Tagkawayan and island municipality of Panukulan have all succumbed to the highly-contagious illness.
The COVID-19 death toll in the province is now 316 with 31 fatalities recorded only this month.
Lucena, the capital city of the province has the highest number of fatalities with 72.
The province has been seeing an alarming spike of COVID-19 cases …
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