DAGUPAN CITY — Eight new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were recorded in Pangasinan, local health officials said on Wednesday.
Three of the new cases are siblings aged between 1 and 8 years old, records from the provincial health office show.
The children, who are from San Nicolas town, were exposed to their 29-year-old father, the town’s first COVID-19 patient, who came home from Antipolo City on June 27 and was found positive for the virus on July 11.
The first patient’s 47-year-old stepfather also tested positive for COVID-19 and is manifesting symptoms of the disease.
The children and their father are asymptomatic and are confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital.
Other new cases involved a 35-year-old man from San Manuel town, a 41-year-old man from Malasiqui town, a 40-year-old man from Labrador town, and a 23-year-old man, also from Labrador.
The latest tally brought the total number of Pangasinan’s active COVID-19 cases to 42.
The province has recorded 127 COVID-19 cases to date, and 86 have recovered, while nine died.