endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January10) — Labor Undersecretary Joji Aragon succumbed to COVID-19 on Sunday, the Department of Labor and Employment confirmed. The DOLE said in a statement that she had a cardiac arrest in the morning, over a month after she caught the virus. "She succumbed to cardiac arrest due to the dreaded COVID-19 this morning. It is believed that she contracted the virus following a procedure she underwent in the second week of December last year," DOLE said. The department expressed its condolences to the bereaved family. "The entire DOLE family, headed by Secretary Silvestre Bello III, grieves her untimely demise."