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Published July 25, 2021, 1:55 PM
ILOILO CITY – The monastery of the Carmelite Order in this city is under lockdown after 24 nuns and nine staff have been infected by COVID-19.
Data from the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) of the Iloilo City Health Office (ICHO) said that the 33 cases at the Carmelite monastery in La Paz district are among the 102 new COVID-19 cases recorded Saturday, July 24.
CESU-ICHO data said majority of the Carmelite nuns infected with COVID-19 are elderly.
Two of the 24 nuns are in their 90s while 11 nuns are in their 80s. Another four nuns are in their 70s.
The youngest nun infected with COVID-19 at the monastery is in her late 20s.
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ILOILO CITY – As COVID-19 cases continue to rise here, Mayor Jerry Treñas is appealing for additional COVID-19 beds and health workers from the Department of Health (DOH). “We need to have more beds dedicated to COVID-19 so that we can attend to more COVID positive patients. We are now experi
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Mayor Jerry Trenas issued an executive order last May 12 barring gatherings that are “purely recreational, for leisure, or that which is not intended for medical or humanitarian” purposes.
On that day, this city recorded 51 new COVID-19 cases, including two new deaths.
Health officials also found a 141.41 percent spike in COVID-19 cases for the first 11 days of May or a total of 309 cases, compared to the 128 from April 1 to 11.
The Iloilo City Health Office noted that there was a 133.33 percent increase in daily average of new COVID-19 cases or 28 per day compared to that for April 1 to 11 at 12 new cases.