Tuguegarao mayor tests positive for COVID-19

Tuguegarao City Mayor Jefferson Soriano tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, January 22.

The mayor may have been infected by a coworker who tested positive earlier this week.

Soriano is asymptomatic and will isolate at the People's General Hospital in Tuguegarao while continuing to work.

The city was placed under enhanced community quarantine for 10 days starting Wednesday due to an increase in COVID-19 cases.

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