Eastern Visayas’ COVID-19 death toll rises by 3
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.
All 24 towns of Northern Samar now have COVID-19 cases.
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).
Eastern Visayas currently has 8,315 COVID-19 cases.
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.
Edited by TSB
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