source: Panay News
MANILA – A public high school in the National Capital Region’s neighboring Bulacan province is the second provincial school in the Philippines with confirmed A(H1N1) cases, the Department of Health (DOH) announced yesterday.
Eight students of the Doña Candelaria Meneses Duque High School tested positive for the new flu strain, said Health Secretary Francisco Duque III.
As of yesterday, the total number of infections in the country reached 193.
The first public school to have been struck by the virus was Hilera Elementary School in Jaen, Nueva Ecija province. Eleven of its students were found positive for the virus.
