CABANATUAN CITY – Two confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 patients died in separate Nueva Ecija municipalities in two days, according to reports from the province’s inter-agency task force.
One of them was a 70-year-old woman from Barangay Triala, Guimba town who died Thursday, July 16, afternoon.
She was the town’s Patient No. 2 or Nueva Ecija’s Patient No. 111.
On July 14, a 62-year-old man died while waiting for the result of swab test. The result which showed he was positive of COVID-19 was released on Thursday, the NE–IATF reported.
Records from the Department of Health further showed the man had traveled to Ninoy Aquino International Airport and somewhere in Caloocan City.
He was declared dead upon arroval at the Paulino J. Garcia Memorial Research and Medical Center.
Both the fatalities were cremated.