Basilan COVID-19 tally now 3
COTABATO CITY—-Basilan province now has three COVID-19 cases, according to the Bangsamoro health ministry.
Dr. Saffrullah Dipatuan, Bangsamoro health minister, said the patient is a 37-year-old woman from Kulaybato village in Lamitan City.
She is the wife of a man who earlier tested positive for coronavirus and was tagged as the second COVID-19 case in the province.
Dipatuan said the woman has shown no symptoms of the virus and is in a stable condition but on quarantine in a facility of the city government.
Basilan was largely spared from the COVID-19 outbreak, just like the other island provinces of Sulu and Tawi-tawi in the Bangsamoro autonomous region.
The COVID-19 cases in the Bangsamoro region are highest in Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur where the tally has spiked due to the arrival of stranded individuals and overseas Filipinos.
Edited by TSB
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