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Alaska Mambaling Satellite Image, Cebu City | through Google Earth
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Another densely populated area in one of Cebu city barangays recorded three digits in its number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Barangay Mambaling now has 250 COVID-19 patients, most of whom are registered in Alaska Mambaling, a poor urban community similar to Sitio Zapatera in Barangay Luz and Sitio Callejon in Barangay Labangon.
Cebu City on Monday, May 4, recorded 188 new cases of COVID-19, 185 of these are from Alaska Mambaling. It has previously reported more than 40 patients with coronavirus in the past few days.
This development brings the total of Mambaling COVID-19 cases to 250 and surpasses Barangay Luz in terms of areas in Cebu City with the highest number of patients with coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Sitio Sto. Niño in Barangay Suba and P. Del Rosario in Barangay Sambag 1 also reported additional cases in their territories on Monday.
Barangay Sawang Calero also reported his first COVID-19 patient residing at the Buwaran Site in the village.
Data from the City Health Department (CHD) showed that the city has violated the 1,000 mark after it already documented a total of 1,089 COVID-19 infections in the city.
They also revealed that a new revalidation of their existing information led them to reduce the city’s previous total from 902 to 901.
Cebu City is the city outside Metro Manila with the highest number of COVID-19 cases, along with Quezon City. More than half of the city’s figures are recorded in congested and highly populated areas, such as urban poor communities and penal facilities.
The continued increase in coronavirus patients has been attributed to the city’s efforts to conduct massive testing and expand follow-up contacts./rcg
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