FROM four cases in a single day, Cagayan de Oro City logged five new Covid-19 cases in one day to raise its total active cases to 14 as of June 14, the City Health Office (CHO) said yesterday.
“As of 10 pm of June 15, Cagayan de Oro City logged five new cases raising the total active cases to 14 but all of them are outpatient meaning no one among them is admitted at a hospital (all being isolated). Two of them are local index cases, one is a local case with a link and two are inmates/persons deprived of liberty,” CHO medical officer Dr. Ted Yu Jr said in Thursday afternoon’s City Hall press briefing.
Two of the five new Covid-19 cases — a 38-year-old female resident of Barangay Puntod and a 27-year-old male inmate — were unvaccinated. Still, Cagayan de Oro City is averaging single-digit local cases daily and weekly for the first half of June, Dr. Yu said.
“But not one of our patients (is) isolated in (Northern Mindanao Medical Center),” Dr. Yu said.
NMMC is the designated referral center for severe to critical Covid-19 cases in Cagayan de Oro City and northern Mindanao.
With these latest case numbers, Dr. Yu said it’s likely that the city’s average health care/critical care utilization rate (HCUR/CCUR) may go up slightly, though not as high as Metro Manila and other highly urbanized cities (HUCs).
“Based on (Department of Health) data, Metro Manila’s (average daily attack rate) is pegged at seven percent while their two-week growth rate is 50 percent plus or moderate risk. But Metro Manila, Cagayan de Oro, and other HUCs are placed under Alert Level 1 until June 30 because their hospitalization rate is below 30 percent,” Dr. Yu said.
Cagayan de Oro City’s health risk indicators as sourced from DOH Fassster Philippines showed that intensive care unit bed use and mechanical ventilator use are at zero percent while isolation bed use dipped slightly to 6.10 percent last June 14 from seven percent last June 12.
“Total bed utilization rate is at 2.15 percent or low risk for Cagayan de Oro City,” Dr. Yu said. (Stephen Capillas of City Information Office)