Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – After months of spikes in COVID-19 caused by the new Omicron subvariants, the provinces of Cagayan and Isabela have noted a downward trend in the number of infections over the past two weeks.
Cagayan province currently has 77 active infections reported on Tuesday night, Sept 13, a figure significantly lower than its recorded 275 active cases on August 31.
The cases of COVID-19 in Cagayan have been noted to have consistently declined over the past two weeks by its Provincial Health Office, attributing the slope to higher vaccination rates in the province.
According to the PHO, each Local Government Unit have been actively shelling out booster shots to locals combined with the Provincial Government’s efforts to intensify its inoculation against the lingering virus.
Meanwhile, nearby Isabela’s province-wide COVID-19 cases have also slowed down to 105 on Wednesday, Sept 14, over 200 percent lower than its 307 active patients logged in end-August.
According to Isabela’s Provincial Health Office, there are now 1,107,717 locals who have been given their 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while booster recipients have also increased to 234,942 on Tuesday, September 13, citing a 93.13 percent vaccination consumption rate.
The Department of Health and the Inter-Agency Task Force have both observed the unwillingness of Filipinos to get their first and second boosters of various vaccines against the disease and warned that dwindling effects of the initial 2 doses may be dangerous as the strains of COVID-19 keep evolving.
Recently, the genome sequencing data of the DOH and the Philippine Genome Center have traced the Omicron BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 strains as well as the old and deadly Delta variant in Cagayan Valley Region. TNF