THE Cagayan de Oro City Health Office logged 170 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases over the weekend, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the city to 7,121.
Acting City Health Officer Dr. Lorraine Nery said of the 147 new cases, one was a locally stranded individual (LSI), 54 were close contacts of previously confirmed cases, 87 were local index cases, 13 were local authorized persons outside residence (Apors), eight were Apors with link, and seven deaths.
Of the 7,121 total Covid-19 cases in the city, 440 were under the returning overseas Filipino workers/locally stranded individuals (ROFs/LSIs) category and 6,681 cases were local transmissions.
Cagayan de Oro recorded 1,213 active cases, 294 of whom were admitted to the Northern Mindanao Medical Center and other hospitals in the city, 918 were outpatients, and one LSI.
Cagayan de Oro also registered 104 new coronavirus-positive persons who were tagged as “recovered,” bringing the total number of recoveries in Cagayan de Oro to 5,587, with an 78.45-percent recovery rate.
Of the figure, 313 were LSIs, 124 were ROFs, and 5,150 were local cases (community: 4,339; Apors: 811).
The number of Covid-19 deaths in the city was now at 321.
