BACOLOD City-Based on the “real-time “data from the Emergency Operations Center-Task Force(EOC-TF) indicated that this city booked zero coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19 ) case for Feb.21, for the first time this year
Mayor Evelio Leonardia considered this as “news-breaking development” late tonight as he expressed gratitude to Bacolodnons for heeding the city government’s call for continued compliance to minimum health protocols despite the decline of cases the past several weeks.
A record showed that the first time this city registered zero COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic was on March 10, 2021.
Doctor Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical data analysis and management of EOC-TF clarified that the Feb. 21 data of the EOC will reflect in the Department of Health (DOH)-Western Visayas COVID-19 daily bulletin cases dated Feb.22.
He explained, the last seven days saw the drop of COVID-19 cases to 14 and further slipped to 12, then to only 11 daily infections from Thursday until Saturday.
Six cases were reported by the EOC-TF on Sunday, but it was posted by the DOH on Feb. 6.”This is a testimonial to the Bacolodnons’ full cooperation as we continue the fight against the pandemic. Credit also goes to our EOC Task Force, headed by former councilor Em Ang, and health frontliners,” Leonardia said.
The mayor reiterated
anew that “we must learn how to live with the virus and adjust to it accordingly and cautiously.”
Sorongon said the zero cases can be attributed to the high population protection with 121 percent of the target already fully vaccinated in this city.
At the start of this year, it was noticed that COVID-19 cases here had increasing which authorities suspected brought by the Omicron variant of COVID-19./PN