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Laguna confirms 1st case of Covid-19
Laguna Governor Ramil Hernandez confirmed the province's first case of COVID-19 on Sunday, March 15.
The patient is a 41-year-old Filipino male from Santa Rosa City with a travel history from Japan.
He is currently confined at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).
Authorities are conducting contact tracing for the confirmed case.
Classes in the whole province for both public and private schools are suspended until March 20.
The Philippine government has placed the whole of Metro Manila under community quarantine.
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