BACOLOD CITY - The city government of Bacolod has reported a 91.47 percent recovery rate among the 4,761 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases here.
The percentage rate showed 4,355 recovered patients out of the total number of COVID cases here, based on the data from the City Health Office.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia said that such development is a big thing for Bacolod.
“The figure speaks for itself,” Leonardia said, adding that it speaks how successful the city’s aggressive measures to fight COVID-19 have been.
The city has recorded its lowest single day COVID case of one last October 27, since July. The following day, the city recorded 11 new COVID-19 cases.
Leonardia said the zero single-day case was last recorded here around April or May.
He said the spike in COVID cases was reported in September to a daily average of 87 cases, but in the first two weeks of October, the cases went down to only an average of 23 a day.
However, Leonardia said there is no room for complacency.
The city has deployed more than 300 contact tracers to further intensify its campaign to locate possible carriers of COVID in the city, the local chief executive said.
“There was really a system. There were things that we did that resulted in this,” he added.
Retired Maj. Gen. Melquiades Feliciano, deputy chief implementer of Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF)-Visayas, attributed the drop in the number of COVID cases here to the Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center -Task Force (EOC-TF).
Feliciano said that four weeks ago, the city had an average cases of 50 daily. It went down to 25 daily in the last two weeks. This week, it recorded less than 15 cases a day.
“It’s a good progress. The daily cases are now going down,” he added.
Feliciano is hoping to reduce the number of deaths in the coming days, as he noted a decrease in the mortality rate from the average of more than two daily in September.
Feliciano, who is scheduled to leave Bacolod this month after monitoring and supervising the COVID measures here in the past month, said that he is confident that COVID cases here will remain stable.
He reiterated his call to Bacolodnons to take part in the efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.
“As long as there’s COVID-19, there will be transmission. This is a shared responsibility for us to unite in these trying times,” he said.