COVID-19 pandemic in Cagayan Valley
Confirmed cases in Cagayan Valley by province (as of August 25)[note 1]
  100–499 confirmed
  50–99 confirmed
  10–49 confirmed
  1–9 confirmed
  0 confirmed
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationCagayan Valley
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China
Index caseTuguegarao
Arrival dateMarch 21, 2020
(3 years, 10 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Confirmed cases171,908
Recovered166,230
Deaths
4,750
Government website
ro2.doh.gov.ph

The COVID-19 pandemic in Cagayan Valley is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus reached Cagayan Valley on March 21, 2020, when the first case of the disease was confirmed in Tuguegarao. All provinces have confirmed at least one COVID-19 case, with Batanes being the last province to confirm a COVID-19 case on September 28, 2020.

Timeline

Cagayan Valley confirmed its first case on March 21, 2020, that of 44-year-old male who had traveled via bus to Tuguegarao. The man arrived in Cagayan on March 11 and was treated at the Cagayan Valley Medical Center.[1] Further cases were recorded in the province as well as in Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya. By April 21, there are no active cases in Cagayan Valley, with a total of 27 confirmed in the region, among which one had died.[2]

Cagayan Valley treated an imported case recorded as a case of the neighboring Cordilleras, that of a man from Lamut, Ifugao who was transferred from the Panopdopan District Hospital to the Region-2 Trauma and Medical Center in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya by April 26. The man's case was also the first confirmed case of Ifugao province.[3]

Quirino recorded its first case on August 12 after provincial Governor Dakila Carlo Cua's househelp tested positive for COVID-19 despite having no previous travel history to known affected areas.[4]

Batanes was the last province in the region and the whole Philippines.[5] It confirmed its first case on September 28. The case was that of a locally stranded individual who was brought home via a military helicopter on September 22. The patient was asymptomatic.[6][7][8]

Notes

  1. ^ Breakdown of confirmed cases is according to the COVID-19 Case Tracker of the Department of Health.

References

  1. ^ Ablat, Jhon Dave (March 23, 2020). "Passenger from Manila is Cagayan Valley's 1st COVID-19 case". Retrieved April 22, 2020.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Catindig, Raymund (April 22, 2020). "Cagayan Valley now COVID-free". The Philippine Star. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  3. ^ "Ifugao records first COVID case". The Philippine Star. April 27, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  4. ^ "Aurora, Quirino virus-free no more". Philippine Daily Inquirer. August 14, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Mocon-Ciriaco, Claudeth (September 30, 2020). "DOH: Batanes no longer Covid-free, all PHL provinces now have Covid cases". BusinessMirror. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  6. ^ "Batanes records first COVID-19 case". CNN Philippines. September 29, 2020. Archived from the original on May 24, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  7. ^ Hallare, Katrina; Visaya, Villamor Jr. (September 29, 2020). "LSI is Batanes' 1st COVID-19 case". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  8. ^ "No longer virus-free: Batanes confirms 1st COVID-19 case". Rappler. September 29, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2020.


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