COVID deaths in a year,

tripled in just 2 months

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, July 30 (PIA) – A year and two months after Bohol mourned on its first recorded coronavirus disease (COVID-19) related death of a septuagenarian from Panggangan Island in Calape in May 26, 2020, the figure now is skyrocketing in queer progression.

From May 26, 2020 to May 25, 2021, some 51 Boholanos have died in relation to the fatal viral disease that was traced first in Wuhan China December of 2019.

This figure results to a monthly average of a little over 4 deaths in a month, data from the Bohol Inter-agency Task Force on the management of Emerging Infectious Disease showed.

From May 25, 2021 to June 25, 2021, or in a month’s time, the number of COVID related deaths rose to 73.

This means that in a month’s time, the 51 deaths for the whole year is buried by the 73 deaths, and that 22 more Boholanos have surrendered their lives to COVID.

And if one thinks that is already the worst, then braces from some more alarm: the following month, from June 25 to July 25, 2021, BIATF reported a yet another increase in mortalities, from 73 to 166, for an additional 83 deaths.

Simply said, all it took to triple the COVID-19 related deaths in Bohol is just 2 months.

But the BIATF through a member of the Emergency Operation Center, jumped on the shrieks of alarm the figures showed.

EOC Secretariat through and executive assistant of the governor, Reyna Deloso said the additional deaths in the report is not due to an overnight spike in deaths but more of the collection of more accurate data and validation efforts.

The clarification also came, just in time, because right after the BIATF launched the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) online dashboard which promises to fix the data inconsistency which hounded the old reporting system, many believe the figures would normalize.

It did not.

In fact the BIATF’s EOC dashboard which should have verified and reconciled the figures by now, still showed that deaths have increased sporadically from July 22 to July 28.

BIATF showed that deaths from July 22 have reached 122.

By the time the BIATF launched the EOC online dashboard on July 25, the deaths have reached 166, or some 44 deaths have been added to the updated list at the dashboard.

However, from July 25 deaths at 166, the number scaled to 168 with the two deaths for the day July 26.

From the 168 in July 27, deaths data piled up again to reach 183 in July 27, and then to 185 in July 28, as two more deaths were reported in a day.

Last July 28, the death cases caused by COVID topped 185, which also stood the same the following day.

At this, health authorities who have been audibly guesting radio programs have called for communities to take the vaccination queues for Bohol to be building resilience against the virus. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

NOW IN THE HANDS OF MAYORS. With Bohol still reeling from 191 deaths creditable to COVID-19, local leaders are now carrying over their shoulders the responsibility of pushing for vaccinations and enforcing minimum health protocols to cut on mortalities. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)