BALANGA CITY — A 62-year–old woman died Thursday, raising to two the number of deaths in Bataan caused by the coronavirus disease, the provincial inter-agency task force on Covid–19 (IATF) announced Friday.
IATF chair Gov. Albert Garia said the woman from this city with travel history in Quezon City was confined March 24 at the Baypointe Hospital in Subic Bay Freeport where she died.
She became the second fatality of the dreaded virus after city administrator Rudy de Mesa who passed away March 27 at a hospital in San Fernando City, Pampanga.
As of latest IATF update, the number of cases confirmed positive of the virus was pegged at 14 with two deaths and three recoveries. Those who recovered were still undergoing 14 days of post–admission quarantine.
The number of persons under monitoring reached 4,073, mild persons under investigation at 771, and moderate to severe PUI at 116.
“Patuloy ko pong hinihiling ang inyong kooperasyon at pagsunod sa patakaran ng enchanced community quarantine na manatili sa ating mga tahanan at kung may mahalagang dahilan ang paglabas ng tahanan, gawin ang social distancing,” Garcia appealed to his cosntituents. “Sa ating pagtutulungan, pagmamalasakitan, pag-uunawaan at sa awa at gabay ng ating Panginoon, mapagtatagumpayan natin ang mabigat na pagsubok na ito.”
