A three-year-old boy from Malabang, Lanao del Sur died at a hospital in Cotabato City Saturday, becoming the 4th fatality of Covid-19 in the province.
Bangsamoro Minister for Interior and Local Government Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo said the child was already sick when he was admitted to the Cotabato Regional Medical Center in Cotabato City last Friday.
Sinarimbo said the boy was already too sick when he arrived at the hospital in Cotabato.
“The doctors in Malabang could not make out his symptoms so they send the boy here in Cotabato City,” he said.
Sinarimbo said the boy tested positive of the virus through Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT -PCR) test.
Lanao del Sur Inter-Agency Covid-19 Task Force focal person Shiela Ganda said the boy is the fourth person from Lanao del Sur who died of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Ganda said the influx of returning residents to the province did not stop despite the moratorium order issued by the Defense Secretary and co-chair of the National Inter-Agency Task Force Delfin Lorenzana last July 1.
Lorenzana suspended the flow of returning residents to Lanao del Sur from July 1 to July 15 after Gov. Mamintal Adiong complained that the influx is threatening its medical front liners.
“The flow did not stop and every day we saw more residents arriving in Laguindingan Airport and ports of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro,” Ganda said.
She said some 1, 441 residents arrived between July 6 to 15.
Ganda said six new positive Covid-19 cases of returning residents were reported as of July 19 bringing the total number of 158 in the province. (Froilan Gallardo)
