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Bacolod records youngest COVID-19 death
Bacolod City has recorded its youngest coronavirus fatality, a one-year-old baby boy from Barangay 30, City Administrator Em Ang confirmed.
Ang, who is also the executive director of the Emergency Operations Center, said that it was not known if where the baby contracted the disease and that the baby had experienced diarrhea for several days, one of the symptoms of coronavirus disease, but it was only later that he was brought to the hospital.
On November 5, he was rushed to The Doctor’s Hospital, but died of severe dehydration, diarrhea, and septic shock. He was tested for COVID as symptoms were present on the boy, and the test results came out two days after his death, on November 7.
Ang said the patient belongs to an extended family of about 13 members. His father, grandfather, and uncle, when contact traced and swabbed, also tested positive and are now isolated in the city's isolation facility, she said, adding the whole household of the baby was also on lockdown.
As of November 12, Bacolod has a total of 5,069 cases with 350 active cases, 4,568 recoveries, and 151 deaths.
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Bacolod City has recorded its youngest coronavirus fatality, a one-year-old baby boy from Barangay 30, City Administrator Em Ang confirmed.
the baby had experienced diarrhea for several days, one of the symptoms of coronavirus disease, but it was only later that he was brought to the hospital.
On November 5, he was rushed to The Doctor’s Hospital, but died of severe dehydration, diarrhea, and septic shock. He was tested for COVID as symptoms were present on the boy, and the test results came out two days after his death, on November 7.
As of November 12, Bacolod has a total of 5,069 cases with 350 active cases, 4,568 recoveries, and 151 death