By Froilan Gallardo
Special Correspondent
HEALTH officials here said eight more Delta variant cases were found here as the number of active Covid-19 cases nearly breach the 2,000-mark today.
Medical officer Dr. Ted Yu of the Cagayan de Oro Health Office said the eight cases including a six-year-old child was confirmed by the Philippine Genome Center which released its findings on Friday.
Yu said the patients came from barangays Kauswagan, Bulua, Kauswagan, Balulang and Carmen, this city.
He said one patient infected with the Delta variant has died while four were already released when they got word that they have been positive of the highly infectious Delta variant.
Yu said this brought the number of Delta cases so far discovered in Cagayan de Oro to 21.
He said the situation of Delta variant cases had become difficult because the location of the patients is now widely spread throughout the city.
“Unlike before when the Delta variant struck at two families only, this time the virus has spread to six barangays,” Yu said during the daily news briefings here on Saturday.
He said all eight patients are now isolated in a city treatment and monitoring facility.
Mayor Oscar Moreno immediately ordered an intensive contact tracing to track those who might have gotten infected by the deadly variant.
In its report on Friday, the CHO said 136 new Covid-19 infections were detected bringing the total active cases to 1,942 cases.
Yu said 56 of the new 136 infections were workers of a construction firm building the multi-million-flood control dike along the Cagayan River.
