Doctor among 14 new COVID-19 patients in Zambales
SAN ANTONIO, Zambales –– A 50-year-old female doctor has contracted COVID-19 after responding to a relative who died of the disease, an official said Tuesday, June 8.
Dr. Noel Bueno, provincial health director, said the doctor wore a face mask and shield when she checked on her 86-year-old relative, who was found dead inside the latter’s house.
It was not immediately determined that the old woman was infected with COVID-19.
Bueno said the room where the patient died was air-conditioned, which could have caused the virus to spread quickly.
The doctor was among the 14 new cases of COVID-19 in the province that day.
Article continues after this advertisementMost of the other cases belong to the same households where infections spread among family members.
So far, the province has 669 active COVID-19 cases out of the 2,814 infections recorded since last year.
At least 2,092 of these patients have healed, while 57 had died.
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