Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes tests positive for coronavirus disease again
JONAS CORTES – The mayor of Mandaue City tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 for the second time.
The COVID-19 pandemic remains to be the biggest challenge that the country is facing today. This disease that started way back in 2019 in Wuhan, China has placed a lot of lives at risk and has even taken the lives of many people.
A lot of personalities such as celebrities, elites, and even politicians were infected with the coronavirus as well.
Among those who contracted the dreaded virus is no less than Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes.
Recently, he announced that he was reinfected with COVID-19.
According to him, he experiences mild symptoms. Because of this, he’s in isolation but he will continue to monitor the city despite his condition.
This is not the first time the politician contracted the dreaded disease. Back in April last year, he was also infected with the virus.
Meanwhile, the country is being threatened with the sudden increase of COVID-19 cases. In fact, there are 32,744 new COVID-19 cases in the Philippines as of Friday, January 21, 2022.
On the other hand, 156 new deaths have been recorded, raising the total number of fatalities to 53,309 while 16,385 additional recoveries have been logged bringing the total of 3,012,156.
Since the start of the pandemic, the Philippines has confirmed 3,357,083 COVID-19 cases. Currently, there are 291,618 active cases.
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