TUGUEGARAO CITY – The provincial government of Batanes on Wednesday announced the death of a second COVID-19 patient.
The fatality was an 88-year-old resident of Barangay Kayhuvokan in the capital town of Basco.
His death came three days after a 70-year-old man, also a resident of Basco, succumbed to COVID-19 complications.
Data also showed that 41 new COVID-19 cases were registered in Batanes on Tuesday, raising the number of active infections to 451.
So far, Batanes has already registered 483 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic struck last year, most of which were logged this month.
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