VETERAN film and theater actor Menggie Cobarrubias who passed away on March 26 from complications of pneumonia in a Muntinlupa City hospital was positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The 68-year-old actor and his family were awaiting his test results when he died.

Based on an exclusive ABS-CBN News phone interview with Cobarrubias’ wife Gina on Wednesday, the family received the actor’s test results on March 31. Five days after his death, they finally confirmed what they feared all along that he was positive for the same virus that has claimed almost 43,000 lives around the world since the pandemic began.

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