LAOAG CITY—A 38-year-old man from Solsona town became Ilocos Norte’s fifth COVID-19 fatality, officials said on Monday (March 22).
In a statement, Solsona Mayor Joseph De Lara said the fatality was tagged as a COVID-19 patient by the provincial government last March 13.
The patient had displayed COVID-19 symptoms.
Before testing positive for SARS Cov2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the man had been suffering from asthma and was hypertensive, said De Lara.
The man was a resident of the village of Bubuos which was hit recently by a COVID-19 outbreak.
The patient had been quarantined in a government fac…
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