Pangasinan records 4 new COVID-19 cases | Inquirer News

Pangasinan records 4 new COVID-19 cases

By: - Correspondent / @yzsoteloINQ
/ 05:14 PM July 05, 2020

ALAMINOS CITY — Four new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in different towns and cities in Pangasinan were reported on Sunday, authorities said.

Records from the Pangasinan Provincial Health Office showed that the fresh cases involved a 52-year-old female patient in Alaminos City and an 18-year old male patient in Urbiztondo. Both came from Metro Manila.

In Natividad town, the new case is a 29-year old man who had traveled from Sta. Rosa, Laguna while the new patient in San Fabian town is the mother of an infected firefighter assigned in Taguig, Metro Manila.

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“You may notice that most confirmed cases have travel history to (Metro) Manila or abroad,” said Orpheus Velasco, provincial information officer.

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The Hundred Islands National Park in this city had just reopened on July 1 when the 52-year old locally stranded individual (LSI) from Quezon City tested positive for COVID-19 on July 4 through a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test.

Three other Alaminos City residents who came from National Capital Region and Region 3 were tested positive for the virus through rapid tests.

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The LSI from Quezon City was tested right after she was fetched by the Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office on July 3 and stayed at home while waiting for the results.

She was asymptomatic and was isolated from his family members who are scheduled to undergo the RT-PCR test.

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