Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 6) — Dagupan City reported its first coronavirus death on Sunday after a patient under investigation was confirmed to have contracted the viral disease.
The city’s public information office said in a statement that an 80-year-old patient under investigation (PUI), who died on April 2, had tested positive for COVID-19. The city only received his test results from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on Sunday.
The patient from Barangay Pogo Chico was the 6th confirmed COVID-19 case in the city. He was also one of the three PUIs who died before their test results were released; the two others are still awaiting results.
The patient was cremated on April 3. He had no travel history, but he was exposed to a person who had traveled to Metro Manila.
Dagupan City has a total of 1,867 persons under monitoring and 38 patients under investigation — five of which remain admitted in hospitals.
In the Philippines, there are 3,246 confirmed cases, 152 deaths, and 64 recoveries.
