CEBU CITY, Philippines -- Health authorities in Cebu are still investigating and determining the cause of death of the one-year-old male infant who tested positive of coronavirus disease 2019
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CEBU CITY, Philippines — Health authorities in Cebu are still investigating and determining the cause of death of the one-year-old male infant who tested positive of coronavirus disease 2019 .Dr. Jaime Bernadas, director of the Department of Health in Central Visayas , said they received initial information from the patient’s physicians that he suffered acute dehydration.
“Physicians tagged the child under incidental finding since we are still narrowing down whether his death was due to COVID-19 or purely due to acute dehydration,” Bernadas told the media in a virtual press conference on Monday, May 11. Bernadas said that while doctors who attempted to revive the infant upon arrival at a government hospital in Cebu City found no significant findings in his lungs, they still extracted swab samples from him.
“He was labeled as dead on arrival because the doctors were not able to revive him. Nevertheless, they took swab samples and was later found out to have the virus,” explained Bernadas.mortalities since he tested positive of the infection, and that’s the policy,” he added.
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