DOH released COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #35 at 16:00H (4:00PM PST) on April 18, 2020.
As of today, the department of Health reported 209 new cases of COVID-19 in the country with a total number of cases now at 6,087. 10 deaths were reported since yesterday and that gave us a total of 397 reported deaths due to the virus.
We’ve got 29 new reported recoveries today, significantly lower than of yesterday but this increased our total recoveries to 516.
In Cebu City, there were 2 new additional COVID-19 cases in the City, 1 is a resident of Sitio Zapatera in Barangay Luz and 1 from its neighboring barangay in Hipodromo.
In addition to that, 2 new cases were also reported in Mandaue City and 2 coming from Lapu-Lapu City and these gave us a total of 7 new COVID-19 cases in the entire of Cebu.
COVID-19 was declared by World Health Organization (WHO) as a Pandemic on March 03, 2020 which started in Wuhan, China. The disease is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) with a Flu like symptoms such as Fever, Cough, Colds and in more severe cases Difficulty in Breathing.
There are no vaccines or direct cure for the disease at the moment and the only way to protect ourselves from getting infected is to practise proper and frequent handwashing, avoid touching our face, mouth, nose and eyes. Our health experts strongly suggests that we wear face masks as much as possible.
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