COVID-19 pandemic in Cagayan Valley

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 except Batanes and Quirino have confirmed at least one COVID-19 case.

COVID-19 pandemic in Cagayan Valley
Confirmed cases in Cagayan Valley by province (as of July 4)[note 1]
  100–499 confirmed
  10–99 confirmed
  1–9 confirmed
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationCagayan Valley
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China
Index caseTuguegarao
Arrival dateMarch 21, 2020
(4 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Confirmed cases609
Recovered259
Deaths
2
Government website
ro2.doh.gov.ph

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]

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.
  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.


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