TACLOBAN CITY—Eastern Visayas has recorded at least three COVID-19 fatalities on Friday (June 26).
Dr. Minerva Molon, director of the Department of Health (DOH) in Eastern Visayas, said all three patients suffered from other pre-existing illnesses and were later confirmed to have been infected with coronavirus.
The fatalities were from the towns of Kawayan in Biliran, Kananga in Leyte and Tarangnan in Samar.
In Kawayan, the fatality involved a 65-year-old man who returned to his village from Manila on June 11.
He died on June 14, the day a swab sample was extracted from him.
The man was suffering from hypertension, heart failure and diabetes.
The second fatality in the region involved a 47-year-old man also from Kananga town.
The man, who had been stranded, returned to his village in Kananga on June 15 from Cebu City and complained of chest pains the next day.
He turned out to be positive for coronavirus.
On June 24, he died at a hospital in Ormoc City due to severe pneumonia, one of the deadliest effects of COVID-19, and heart failure.
The third fatality, on the other hand, was an 80-year-old woman from Tarangnan town in Samar.
Molon said the woman was confined at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Cente due to diabetes, hypertension and asthma.
But on June 24, she died due to what Molon described as “multi-factorial shock” related to hypertension, septic shock from pneumonia and acute kidney failure.
The woman was found to have been infected with coronavirus.
Molon said the local government units where the patients died “followed meticulously” the procedure in handling of corpses infected with coronavirus.