COVID-19 death toll in Olongapo City rises with 3 new fatalities
OLONGAPO CITY—Three more residents here succumbed to COVID-19 as deaths continue to grip the city in the past eight days.
In a statement Thursday (May 27), Mayor Rolen Paulino Jr. said the city’s death toll related to COVID-19 had climbed to 91.
The latest to die were a 69-year-old man, a 66-year-old woman, and a 41-year-old woman.
Paulino said 31 new infections were also added to the city’s record on the same day, raising to 234 its active COVID-19 cases. The new patients are aged 21 to 77.
The mayor said 12 people were also declared free of the virus on Thursday, pushing to 1,591 the total number of recoveries out of the 1,916 infections that the city logged since last year.
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