Cagayan town posts first Covid-19 case

By Liezle Basa Inigo

STA. TERESITA, Cagayan -- For the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak seven months ago, the municipality of Sta. Teresita here recorded its first infection.

    According to the Provincial Health Office, the town’s first case, tagged by the province as CV2675, was a 24-year-old man from Zone 2, Barangay Dungeg.

    Meanwhile, the Cagayan Information Office also reported there were seven other new coronavirus cases which were detected in the province.

    It said one of them was a 40-year-old engineer living in Camasi, Peñablanca.He was asymptomatic and undergoing home quarantine.

    There, too, was a 50-year-old dentist, who owns his own clinic in Centro 6, Tuguegarao City.

    The patient, tagged as CV2673, had no travel history, was asymptomatic, and was on home quarantine. 

    There were also two police officers from Tuao, Cagayan, who were infected by the virus. They, in turn, infected a co-worker.

    In Tuguegarao City, four persons residing in one boarding house located in Zone 6, Centro 11, were infected.

    Sta. Praxedes town remains as the only town that is Covid-19 free in the province of Cagayan.