For January 1, Saturday, Pampanga recorded 32 new active cases of corona virus infections. This brings the number of active cases in the entire province to 166. Records show that some eight active cases are from Angeles City while 24 cases were recorded from the rest of the towns and cities of the province.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Pampanga to 69, 088 with some 67, 180 cases having since recovered from the virus. Recoveries have been fast in province with 29 recoveries in the last 14 days in Pampanga alone. In Angeles City, some 13 patients have recovered from the virus around the same period.
Some 1, 742 people have died of virus since the start of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 1,444 are from Pampanga while 298 are in Angeles City. No deaths were recorded in Pampanga, including Angeles City, in the last 14 days.
The occupancy rate of hospital beds in Pampanga’s 47 health facilities have risen to 7.6 percent. This means 74 of the total 978 hospital beds in Pampanga are currently occupied. Despite of the increase, 39 hospital facilities in the province are yet to be stretched of their hospital services.