MANILA, Philippines — The number of confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in San Juan City has reached nine, Mayor Francis Zamora said Friday.
“As of March 13, 2020, 230pm, San Juan has 9 confirmed COVID-19 patients,” Zamora said in a message to reporters.
All of them, he added, are in stable condition.
The latest case is a 70-year-old female and a resident of Barangay West Crame. She is also receiving treatment in a private hospital in Manila.
So far, the country has recorded 52 confirmed cases of COVID-19, a disease that first broke out in Wuhan City in China.
The COVID-19 crisis was later declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
And because of the growing number of COVID-19 patients in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the entire Metro Manila under a “community quarantine.”