CEBU CITY – The 62-year-old municipal councilor from Tayasan town in Negros Oriental who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) died on Sunday, March 15.
This brings brings the country’s total death toll to nine.
In a post on Facebook, the Negros Oriental information office said the councilor passed away at 11:09 a.m. while confined at a hospital in Dumaguete City.
Negros Oriental provincial spokesman Bimbo Miraflor also confirmed the patient’s death, saying the latter passed away due to complications.
The councilor, who was labeled as patient No. PH39, had a liver transplant prior to being diagnosed with COVID-19.
He had attended the national convention of the Philippine Councilors’ League in Manila last month and had gone around Greenhills, a shopping center in San Juan City, Metro Manila.
Two COVID-19 carriers had been confirmed to be working in Greenhills.
Last March 6, the councilor was brought to Ace Dumaguete Doctors Hospital but his family insisted he be transferred to the intensive care unit of the Silliman University Medical Center four days later when his condition deteriorated.