COVID active cases in

Bohol breaches 1,000

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol June 11 (PIA) – For the first time after over a year, the total active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Bohol breached the 1000 daily mark, after health authorities reported 97 new cases in a day, June 11, 2021.

The 97 new cases could also be the biggest number of new cases in a day.

According to the Daily COVID Tracking Report by the Bohol Inter Agency Task Force on the management of Emerging Infectious Disease, the 93 new cases came after the 507 swab samples gave out a high positivity rate of 19.13%.

In the same report, of the over a thousand active cases, 1,001 of these are from local residents who averred that they had no history of travel outside Bohol.

“They may have apparently contracted the disease from mingling with other people who may have been exposed or are carrying the virus but are asymptomatic,” health observers assumed.

On the same day, June 11, deaths by COVID-19 also increased with the day’s reported two more cases.

The two deaths bring the total COVID deaths in June to 8, in the beginning eleven days of the month.

The days report also elevates the cumulative total of confirmed COVID cases in Bohol to 4,906, from a total of 65,991 swab samples processed for traces of the virus in the patient’s body, taken from since March 2020.

Tagbilaran City, the most populous and the only city in Bohol, owned up the largest new cases from the day at 36, followed by 11 Corella residents.

The BIATF report, which is contained in an infographic, also showed that Tagbilaran City has the most number of COVID cases at 311.

The same visual report showed that most of the cases in Bohol are thickest in concentration in towns near Tagbilaran.

Dauis, a town less than five kilometers from Tagbilaran has 49 cases, Baclayon, at less than 10 kilometers from the city, has 22 cases.

Corella, 10 kilometers on Tagbilaran City’s east has 28 COVID cases, while Cortes, on the city’s northeast records 38 COVID cases.

Towns closer to Tagbilaran with high cases include Panglao at 28, Balilihan at 42, Antequera at 42, Maribojoc at 34, Catigbian at 24 and Sevilla at 29.

That day also, the BIATF report showed 20 frontline workers in the health and medical field affected by the fatal disease. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)