Eastern Visayas’ COVID-19 death toll rises by 3 | Inquirer News

Eastern Visayas’ COVID-19 death toll rises by 3

/ 07:04 PM November 24, 2020

TACLOBAN CITY—At least three persons were added to the list of COVID-19 fatalities in Eastern Visayas, raising the death toll from the disease in the region to 85.

The three latest deaths involved a 68-year-old woman from Tarangnan, Samar; a 52-year-old man from Oras, Eastern Samar; and an 84-year-old woman from San Jose town in Northern Samar.

Two died last Nov. 21. The third died on Nov. 22.

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All 24 towns of Northern Samar now have COVID-19 cases.

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The island town of San Vicente recorded its first COVID-19 case involving a 53-year-old woman who was admitted at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC) in Tacloban City for an unspecified illness.

The patient was the lone new COVID-19 case in Northern Samar, according to a report of the Department of Health (DOH) in the region on Monday (Nov. 23).

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Eastern Visayas currently has 8,315 COVID-19 cases.

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In Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Mayor Annaliza Gonzales Kwan said all of the town’s 12 contact tracers have been sent to quarantine after exposure to a person infected with SARS Cov2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

But Kwan said although on quarantine, the contact tracers continued to do their job by phone, calling up close contacts of persons who tested positive for SARS Cov2.

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