Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – In only two weeks, the COVID-19 active cases of Batanes have increased to 523 as reported by its Provincial Government on Friday, October 1.
The surge started with only four positive locals with no travel history in the town of Basco last September 16.
Out of the 527 active infections, 364 are from the epicenter in Basco, 44 in Ivana, 41 in Uyugan, 36 in Mahatao, 27 in Sabtang, and 17 in Itbayat.
Recently on Wednesday, there had been reports of health workers getting exposed to COVID-19 prompting them to go for isolation, impairing the frontlines.
Since the start of the pandemic, the island province has a total of 589 cumulative confirmed cases, 64 recoveries and 2 deaths. TNF