CITY OF SAN FERNANDO –– After 148 days of being free of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Pampanga town of Masantol has recorded its first case in a 41-year-old man who was infected by a relative working in Muntinlupa City.

Masantol Mayor Danilo Guinto said six other people in the sub-village of Ipil-Ipil in Barangay Bebe Anac have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19 despite being exposed to the same worker.