HIGH-PROFILE INMATE Yu Yuk Lai is serving a jail sentence of
up to 40 years for drug trafficking at the Correctional Institute
for Women in Mandaluyong City. —PHOTO COURTESY OF PDEA
MANILA, Philippines – “Drug queen” Yu Yuk Lai died of COVID-19 complications, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) confirmed Tuesday.
Yu died at the East Avenue Medical Center, where she has been confined since May 4.
She died 9:47 this morning due to “acute myocardial infarction and COVID-19 positive critical,” said BuCor Spokesman Gabriel Chaclag.
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