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CEBU CITY — A 17-year-old boy from Barangay Guadalupe in Carcar City, south Cebu died of complications due to the novel coronavirus or COVID-19.
The patient was admitted at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City last April 23 for a supposed kidney problem but he later died on Sunday, April 26.
According to Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, the final diagnosis for the teenager’s death was “pulmonary congestion secondary to acute renal failure to nephrotic syndrome COVID positive.”
After his death, a swab test was made and the results came out on Monday, April 27, that showed he was infected by the novel coronavirus.
Authorities are still checking how the 17-year-old boy got infected with the COVID-19.
Barangay Guadalupe in Carcar City, a component city of Cebu province, is located some 47 kilometers south of Cebu City.
Cebu Island now has a total of 522 recorded infections of COVID-19 with nine deaths and 25 recoveries.
The number of coronavirus in Cebu is the biggest outside the National Capital Region.
In his daily report, Department of Health Central Visayas Director Jaime Bernadas said that the numbers are increasing because of “intensified active surveillance in the community conducted by local health authorities.”
“We remind the public that although we have a high number of cases, we also have low number of deaths,” Bernadas added. “The number of deaths is one of the measures of success in this fight against COVID-19.”
He said it means they are diagnosing them while they are still in the early stages of their infection and able to fight it with little to no medical attention, and not when they are too sick which would need confinement in the hospital.
Majority of the cases in Cebu are asymptomatic and do not require hospitalization. They are, however, being isolated in quarantine facilities such as schools and other facilities recently built by the local government units.
Of the 522 COVID-19 cases in Cebu, 475 are in Cebu City, four in Cebu province, 32 in Lapu-Lapu City, and 11 in Mandaue City.