BACOLOD City – This city recorded only two new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases on Nov. 29, the lowest yet since the pandemic started last year, according to the Data Management Cluster (DMC) of the Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF).
Dr. Rosalie Deocampo, head of EOC’s contact tracing cluster, said one case was an unvaccinated breast cancer patient from Barangay Vista Alegre while the other was a physician from Barangay Singcang-Airport.
The two were part of the 195 people who underwent reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test on Nov. 28.
There was a 1.03-percent positivity rate, the DMC added.
Ten COVID-19 positive patients also completed the required quarantine period, resulting to 95.46-percent recovery rate.
The real-time active cases were also down to only 273, as of Nov. 29.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia attributed the decline to the people’s support to the vaccination drive, and the hard work of health frontliners.
Yesterday, during the Day 1 of the national vaccination drive, Bacolod inoculated 29,047 individuals, way above the 22,057 daily target set by the Department of Health.
The city has 42 vaccination centers./PN
