CEBU City’s active Covid-19 cases, based on the City’s Emergency Operations Center’s (EOC) data as of Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, is below the 1,000 mark at 958 in total.
“It’s a very good day for Cebu City; we breached sub-1 thousand active case and below the WHO 5% Daily Positivity Rate,” Cebu City EOC deputy chief implementer and Councilor Joel Garganera on Saturday, Sept. 25, said.
Garganera said of the 1,004 samples from Cebu City tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, on Friday, only 45 yielded positive test results.
This brought the City’s daily positivity rate to about 4.48 percent, or within the five percent threshold of the World Health Organization for percent positive in Covid-19 tests performed.
The City’s Covid-19 critical care occupancy rate is also within the 60 percent safe zone at only 44.2 percent as of Thuraday, Sept. 23.
Of the 943 Covid beds allocated by 15 hospitals located in Cebu City, only 417 are occupied.
Of the vacant Covid beds, 357 are in private hospitals in Cebu City and 169 others in the City’s four public hospitals.
Garganera also said the Cebu City has already fully vaccinated 270,816 individuals or 40 percent of its target eligible vaccinees for Covid-19.
He also said 336,204 (49.53 percent) have already received first of the two-dose series of vaccination for Covid-19. (WBS)
Cebu City’s active Covid-19 cases now below 1,000 mark
Source: Sonstar
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