Tag: Second fatality

Another House employee tests positive for COVID-19

  (Eagle News)- Another employee of the House of Representatives’ Printing Service has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a statement issued on Tuesday, March 17, House Secretary General Atty. Luis Montales said that the employee last reported for work on March 5, went on leave on March 6, and was admitted to the hospital on March 7 where he was initially diagnosed with dengue. “The doctors later tested him for COVID-19 on […]

COVID-19 patient in Manila hospital dies: DOH

(Eagle News)–The Department of Health on Wednesday, March 11, confirmed that a coronavirus disease case in Manila has died. In a statement, the DOH said the fatality, Patient 35,  was a 67-year-old female confined at the Manila Doctors Hospital. She began exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms on February 29. On Wednesday, she was confirmed positive for the disease. She is the second COVID-19 case to die in the country. The first was a 44-year-old Chinese male. With […]