Eastern Visayas has 6 more COVID-19 cases

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Philippines – The Eastern Visayas Department of Health Center for Health Development (CHD), announced this afternoon during a virtual presser that six patients were

This brings the number of COVID-19 cases in Region 8 from 7 to 13.

Out of 132 samples sent to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center on Friday 6 were found positive from the 92 samples from Tarangnan, Samar, who have contacts with EV patient 6 from the same municipality. Details of the patients are: patient EV8, 28-year-old male; EV9, 45-year-old female; EV10, 29-year-old female; EV11, 72-year-old female; EV12, 27-year-old male; and EV13, 30-year-old male.

Patients 8 to 11 are all from Tarangnan with close contact of patient EV6 in the community. While patients 12 to 13 were close contacts of EV6 and co-workers at the Tarangnan Community Hospital./dbsThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.

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