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Covid-hit Samar town records 4 more cases
Four more residents of Tarangnan, Samar have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the town's total to 19 confirmed cases.
Among the new cases are an ambulance driver of the rural health unit, a retired employee and father of a positive patient, and two children of another COVID-19 patient.
These new patients are identified as the region's Patient Nos. 21 to 24.
Three of the new patients will be placed in a local community isolation facility, while a 63-year-old patient will be confined at the Samar Provincial Hospital.
The entire municipality of Tarangnan, comprising 41 villages, is under a total lockdown due to community transmission.
Tarangnan is considered the most affected town in Eastern Visayas with 19 cases.
The Department of Health expects cases to rise as mass testing is conducted in the community.
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