CEBU City logged 96 new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases on Tuesday, May 26, 2020.
The new cases came from Barangays Lahug (one), Sawang-Calero (one), Tejero (one), Camputhaw (one), Labangon (three), Guadalupe (one case), Basak San Nicolas (two cases) Duljo (eight), Punta Princesa (four), Mabolo (one), Tinago (16), Poblacion Pardo (21), Pasil (12), Basak-Pardo (nine), Calamba (one), Sambag 2 (three), Suba (one), Ermita (one), Tisa (one), Bulacao (two), Cebu City Jail (one), Lorega (one), Day-as (one), Mambaling (two) and Inayawan (one).
The City Government released 63 Covid-19 positive patients from Barangay Labangon after they tested negative during a repeat swab test.
They went home with 25 kilos of rice each.
Labangon Barangay Captain Vic Buendia said 39 residents who tested positive for Covid-19 but are asymptomatic are still in the Barangay Isolation Unit. They will undergo a second swab test and if the result comes out negative, they will be released, he said.
Cebu City has 1,992 Covid-19 cases with 97 recoveries and 23 deaths.
Mandaue City also logged five more Covid-19 cases on May 26.
According to the Facebook post of the Mandaue City Public Information Office, three are inmates of the city jail while the other two are a 60-year-old woman from Barangay Opao and a 39-year-old man from Barangay Cabancalan.
The Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office has decontaminated the houses of the two patients, while it continues to conduct contact tracing.
Mandaue City has 234 Covid-19 cases with eight recoveries and four deaths.
In Talisay City, Barangays Laray, Tanke and San Roque reported one case each.
According to the Facebook page of Mayor Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr., the patient from Barangay Laray is a family member of a resident who earlier tested positive for the disease.
Gullas said the latest patient had been placed in an isolation facility where she was swabbed. She will be moved to a Covid-19 facility, he said.
The patient from Barangay Tanke was also placed on isolation and swabbed after he displayed influenza-like illness (ILI) symptoms.
The patient from Barangay San Roque is currently admitted at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City.
Talisay City has 44 Covid-19 cases with one recovery and six deaths.
Cebu Province also logged three new Covid-19 cases on May 26.
Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said the patients, who are all male, hail from different local government units (LGUs) in the south.
The first patient, a 59-year-old male dialysis patient who originally hailed from Malabuyoc, died last May 23.
The patient had been staying in Cebu City since April 23.
The second patient is a 39-year-old male detainee of the San Fernando Police Station who was admitted at the VSMMC for hypertension on May 18. Garcia said the patient is in stable condition.
"Na-admit man ni, gi-andam na og pagpauli ngadto sa (He was confined and now they’re preparing for him to return to) San Fernando," she said.
The third patient is a 46-year-old man from Talisay City.
As of May 26, Cebu Province had 126 Covid-19 cases.
New coronavirus infections spiked to a new 24-hour high of 350 for the month of May, just five days before the community quarantine in the country is set to end.
The total case count nationwide as of 4 p.m. on May 26 is 14,669.
The Department of Health (DOH) also reported 13 new deaths, which brought the death toll to 886.
The DOH said 89 more patients have recovered from the disease, increasing the total number of recoveries to 3,412.
The country has 10,371 are active cases.
Globally, the novel coronavirus, or Sars-CoV-2, has infected more than 5.3 million people, including 342,029 who had died as of May 25. (PAC, KFD, JCT, RTF, MVI, JTM of SunStar Philippines, JKV)