THE City Health Office of Cagayan de Oro reported Wednesday, March 3, 12 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases, all of which are local transmissions, health officer Dr. Lorraine Nery said.
This brought the total number of confirmed Covid-19 infections in the city to 3,836.
Nery said of the 12 new local cases, four are local authorized persons outside residence (Apors) and eight are local index cases.
Of the 3,836 total Covid-19 cases in the city, 422 are under the returning overseas Filipino workers/locally stranded individuals (ROFs/LSIs) category and 3,414 cases are local transmissions.
According to Nery, the 3,414 local cases consist of 186 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), 1,811 local index cases and 1,415 local cases with link.
Cagayan de Oro has recorded 189 active cases, 47 of whom are admitted to the Northern Mindanao Medical Center and other hospitals in the city and 142 outpatients.
The city also registered 21 new coronavirus-positive persons who are now tagged as "recovered." This brought the total number of recoveries in Cagayan de Oro to 3,464.
Of the figure, 302 are LSIs, 119 are ROFs, and 3,043 are local cases (community: 2,591; Apors: 452).
The number of Covid-19 deaths in the city is at 183.