3-year-old girl is Pampanga’s youngest COVID-19 case

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO –– A 3-year-old girl in Minalin town, Pampanga tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Tuesday, raising the tally in the former zero-infected town to 15 in just a month.

Minalin Mayor Edgar Flores said the symptomatic child was brought to a government quarantine facility together with her parents.

Her family lives in Barangay Sto. Domingo, where a cluster of 13 COVID-19 cases had been recorded.

Flores said the girl was a close contact of Case No. 10, who was exposed to Case No. 6, the second death due to COVID-19 in the same village.

The girl is known to be the youngest victim of COVID-19 in Pampanga, which logged 123 cases from June 15 to July 17.

The province recorded 103 cases only from March 17 to June 14.

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