His widow was also confirmed positive and was having a sore throat and cough.
Contact tracing in Region 2 was intensified again as deaths had ballooned to 27 out of 1,656 positive cases of coronavirus disease 2019 , based on latest data, the Department of Health said.
A 35-year-old man from Tuao in Cagayan was the latest recorded fatality on Sunday. He went home from Batangas after suffering from liver cirrhosis. The widow had left Cagayan and went back to Batangas. She has been sought by health workers to avoid more direct transmission, according to Cagayan Valley Medical Center chief Dr. Glenn Mathew Baggao.
A seven-day extension from a 10-day lockdown in the city’s Linao West village was imposed to contain the virus, according to Mayor Jefferson Soriano.
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