Meanwhile, 13 of the city’s health frontliners, who were infected with the virus, have recovered and were discharged from R1MC on June 12.
A 14th patient, who is confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City, has also beaten the disease and is awaiting the result of his second test, according to Dr. Ophelia Rivera, Dagupan’s focal person for COVID-19. They were among the 1,400 high-risk city government workers, who submitted swab samples from May 27 to June 2, after Dagupan Mayor Brian Lim enforced expanded testing for COVID-19.
Ten of them are Dagupan residents, while the rest are from the towns of San Fabian, Mangaldan and Calasiao, and San Carlos City. They were all asymptomatic. Since March, the city has recorded 23 COVID-19 cases, including an 80-year-old diabetic, who died in April.
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