OLONGAPO CITY –– COVID-19 has claimed the life of another elderly patient here Tuesday, an official said.
In a statement, Mayor Rolen Paulino Jr. said the 79-year-old woman from Barangay Old Cabalan suffered from hypertension. She experienced difficulty in breathing on May 9 and was hospitalized that day.
Ten days later, the patient had tested positive for COVID-19 and eventually died in less than a week while in the hospital.
Paulino said the patient was the 85th COVID-19-related death in the city, which has been seeing at least one death in the last five days. Most of them were elderly residents
The city also logged 26 new cases on Tuesday, raising to 197 the number of active infections. The fresh cases are aged 10-74.
So far, Olongapo has registered 1,855 COVID-19 cases since last year but 1,573 of them had already recovered from the disease. INQ