claimed that it was not a wedding occasion, but a yoga seminar instead, where around a hundred foreign nationals attended. on june 28, 2009, seven philippine navy soldiers were tested positive for the influenza. according to lieutenant colonel edgard arevalo upon press conference in camp aguinaldo in quezon city, these soldiers may contracted the novel disease when spending their vacation. defense secretary gilbert teodoro, jr., on the other hand, believes that one of the infected soldiers might have caught the virus when he attended a wedding in zambales province, where two taiwanese had also contracted the disease in may. rizal on june 19, 2009, classes at the karangalan elementary school in cainta, rizal province were canceled when 43 of its students and three faculty members exhibited flu-like symptoms. due to this, the town government was urged to order the release of p5 million in calamity funds to be used for the purchase of anti-flu vaccines, face masks, alcohol, and other equipment. on june 21, swab tests of the suspected patients arrived from research institute for tropical medicine, which confirmed that two of the students have influenza, thus making cainta be the first municipality in rizal province to report influenza case. on the same hand, cainta mayor ramon ilagan cited that there were earlier cases of a(h1n1) on the town, one being a high school student from greenland executive village in san juan, and his mother who apparently caught the disease from him. quezon on july 7, 2009. the maryhill college confirmed its first a(h1n1) virus case in lucena city. on july 14, 2009. 6 of 72 students that shows the symptoms of the influenza a(h1n1) underwent the swab test and the result came out as positive. mimaropa to date, majority of mimaropa provinces has no confirmed infections yet. on july 18, 2009, around 132 students of managpi elementary school in managpi, calapan, oriental mindoro, mysteriously felt ill. the next day, in a radio interview with calapan mayor paulino salvador leachon ordered schools officials of managpu es to temporarily close classes until july 26, where at the same day, 5 of its students were confirmed to have a(h1n1). four days later, additional five cases were confirmed by the doh mimaropa regional director dr. gloria balboa and city health officer dr. basilisa llanto, two of them came from j.j. leido national high school and three from adriatico elementary school. this prompted the city mayor and the council to declare suspension of classes among levels in calapan and to resume august 1, as more and more children acquire the disease (though no other figures provided). at the same day, all of calapan under state of calamity as a mysterious fever downed around 400 students there. bicol region on july 13, 2009, classes were suspended in philippine science high school in goa, camarines sur when 70 of its 300 dormers exhibited some influenza-like illnessess. three days later, local government officials from goa denied that an influenza a(h1n1) infected the school, but was a seasonal flu instead. furthermore, the toll of students infected with the seasonal flu rose to 96. visayas visayas group islands has the most number of provinces infected in terms of geographical extent. provinces that do not have flu cases so far include aklan, antique, biliran, guimaras, eastern samar, negros oriental, northern samar, siquijor and southern leyte. mindanao there are some parts of mindanao which are affected from the virus. zamboanga peninsula on july 2, 2009. the ateneo de zamboanga university confirmed its first a(h1n1) virus case in zamboanga city. university president fr. antonio moreno said that the grade 4 student had contacted with a relative who was found positive of the illness in manila. due to this incident, fr. moreno announced its suspending the classes at the elementary level of the university starting this friday, july 3, until july 13. northern mindanao there are at least 10 confirmed cases in northern mindanao. two are from cagayan de oro city, and six are soldiers training in a local military camp from malaybalay city, bukidnon. the other two are confirmed in cotabato city and ozamis city. on june 28, 2009, doh confirmed that all these 10 patients had fully recovered. on july 15, 2009, there are 9 confirmed cases of a(h1n1) virus from xavier university - ateneo de cagayan. 8 are high school students from xavier university - ateneo de cagayan high school in pueblo de oro and 1 is a faculty of xavier university-ateneo de cagayan main campus. all are now undergoing confined treatment and are now recovering. all classes of all levels in all four campuses of the university are suspended for 10 days starting from july 16, 2008 (july 15, 2009 for xuhs) and will resume on july 27, 2009. on the same date, there are also suspected cases from pilgrim christian college to have the virus and are now undergoing the swab test according to cagayan de oro's committee on health and social services chairman dr. dante pajo. on july 17, 2009, lourdes college and corpus christi school of cagayan de oro city suspended classes, fearing that their personnel would be exposed to infected students. furthermore, some of the students are experiencing with the symptoms of the virus and currently waiting for the results of the swab tests conducted. davao region during the course of the pandemic, no cases have been confirmed in the davao region. soccsksargen the first case in the region was a woman in kidapawan city who visited her ofw husband in manila. the husband, however is negative of the virus. caraga on june 22, 2009, mindanao has its first confirmed flu infection when a four-year-old boy who visited his working mother in hong kong tested positive for the disease. the child developed a fever and cough after arriving with his parents from a vacation in hong kong on june 13. the boy's location was revealed to be in the independent city of butuan inside the province of agusan del norte. three days later, on june 25, the same city, butuan, confirmed another case, a nine-year-old girl who had close contact with the first case in butuan. the patient was then rushed into the davao medical center. autonomous region in muslim mindanao during the course of the pandemic, no cases have been confirmed in the autonomous region in muslim mindanao. notes map may not show provinces with deaths confirmed to be a/h1n1 related as per the department of health. reports reported by the media to be a/h1n1 related may conflict with doh records.