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Concepcion town has most COVID-19 cases in Tarlac

Jun A. Malig

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Concepcion town has most COVID-19 cases in Tarlac

A local government truck disinfects a main highway in Tarlac City. Photo from the Facebook page of the Tarlac City Information Office

Tarlac City Information Office

A record single-day jump in recorded cases sends the agricultural town of Concepcion to the unsavory top spot in the province

The agricultural town of Concepcion now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Tarlac province, outstripping the progressive and more populous provincial capital, Tarlac City.

Provincial government records show that as of 11 am on Thursday, September 17, Concepcion has 117 COVID-19 cases, 94 of whom are active.

Tarlac City, on the other hand, has 93 total confirmed cases, 44 are active.

Since the start of the pandemic, Tarlac City was the province’s ground zero in terms of validated coronavirus cases. But on September 15, Concepcion overtook the capital city by 2 new confirmed cases. Tarlac City had 87 cases while Concepcion had 89.

On Thursday, Tarlac province recorded 29 new patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 or the coronavirus, its highest single-day recorded cases.

Of these 29, 22 were in Concepcion, 2 in Tarlac City and 5 in La Paz town.

Based on the 2015 national government census, Tarlac City has a population of 342,493 while Concepcion is inhabited by 154,188.

While under the most relaxed modified general community quarantine, the entire Concepcion was twice placed by its mayor under a total lockdown that was stricter than the enhanced community quarantine. These were for 36 hours on July 23 when the town only had 7 confirmed coronavirus cases; and again on September 6 for 24 hours when it had 19 validated COVID-19 cases.

The total lockdown of the town on the said dates were for disinfection and contact tracing.

The Tarlac provincial government disclosed in a Facebook post on Thursday that 26 of the confirmed coronavirus cases in Concepcion were residents of Barangay Alfonso, while Barangay Santiago has 23 confirmed cases.

As of September 17, Tarlac province had a total of 355 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 206 of them still active cases. – Rappler.com

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