Dagupan City records first COVID-19 death

Dagupan City has officially recorded its first death from the novel coronavirus, an 80-year-old male patient under investigation.

The patient, who died last Thursday, April 2, had no travel history but was reportedly exposed to someone from Metro Manila.

His test results confirming COVID-19 were released by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine on Sunday, April 5.

The victim was cremated on Friday, April 3, and the local government is conducting contact tracing for his case.

This first COVID-19 death is also Dagupan City's sixth confirmed case, which includes two other patients under investigation who have already died.

The other confirmed cases in the city involve a female health frontliner and her husband, two hospital employees, and a younger woman exposed to someone from the United States.