DAVAO CITY — Davao City health authorities recorded 104 cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) through community transmission, or whose exposure to a confirmed positive patient could no longer be established, out of the 643 confirmed positives reported as of Thursday.
— Davao City health authorities recorded 104 cases of coronavirus disease through community transmission, or whose exposure to a confirmed positive patient could no longer be established, out of the 643 confirmed positives reported as of Thursday.
“These cases have exposure to unknown individuals in the community. These are the cases which we can no longer establish with whom they are epidemiologically linked to any positive cases, but they all came from areas where there is a local transmission, but we cannot just pinpoint who among the community infected them,” she said.
The Barangay 23-C was placed under a 14-day from July 4 to July 18, subject to extension if the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise. As of Sunday, the city government has yet to release the status of the barangay.Out of the 709, she said the agency was able to pinpoint that 212 cases had a history of travel in areas with local transmission, and 358 cases have exposure to COVID-19 patients or suspects.
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