Tonsillitis - Zocef 500 slow recovery.

I am having acute tonsillitis (Only throat pain nothing else like fever,cold,cough). It all started from this Monday (7th May). For 3 days (Mon-Wed) I did salt water gargles and was eating Ginger honey but when there was a very little improvement so I went to see a doctor. Doctor prescribed me Zocef 500 (Twice a day). I started taking it from Thursday but recovery is very very slow. As in today is the 3rd day and I still feel pain in my throat. My question is that if I would have taken Azithromycin 500 then would that subside the pain and bacterial infection much faster as I have taken that in past and it did the recovery pretty faster. Is this tablet (Zocef 500) better than Azithromycin 500. If so then why am I still having the throat pain after taking 5 tablets.