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DUMAGUETE CITY, Oct. 19 (PIA) -- Negros Oriental logged one new death related to COVID-19.
Assistant Provincial Health Officer Dr. Liland Estacion announced in a press briefing on Oct. 18, 2020 at the BOM Office that the latest mortality is a 70-year old male from Guihulngan City with no history of travel outside of the province but has an existing co-morbidity.
Estacion said he was found positive for COVID-19 infection after a post-mortem swab test.
The City Government of Guihulngan issued a statement on the latest COVID-19 death recorded in their city which was posted on their official Facebook page.
The statement cited the individual was a businessman, had no travel history outside the province but may have come in contact with business suppliers form Bacolod City and Dumaguete City.
Contact tracing have also started.
The city government also revealed that a 25-year old female medical frontliner based there, who had travel history in Dumaguete City and San Carlos City, also tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently isolated in the local government facility.
Her boarding house and direct contacts have been placed under home lockdown,” the same statement said.
The two new cases in Guihulngan City are among the 13 additional cases of COVID-19 infection that Estacion reported in her press conference.
Other cases were logged in Tanjay City with 2 cases, Bayawan City with one case, Dumaguete City with three cases, and Zamboanguita town with five cases.
Two of the new cases n Dumaguete City were direct contacts of NegOr-Cov-191, an Authorized Person Outside Residence (APOR) who had a travel history in Metro Manila.
The other case in Dumaguete is a direct contact of patient NegOr-Cov-199, while the five cases in Zamboanguita are direct contacts of NegOr-Cov-198.
The two cases in Tanjay City are both Locally Stranded Individuals who arrived in the province on Oct. 13 via 2Go shipping line.
The lone case in Bayawan City is a 15-year old male with no history of travel outside the province.
All new COVID-19 positive individuals are quarantined at the isolation facilities of their respective Local Government Units (LGUs).
With this, the number of COVID-19 cases in the province are now at 217 with 28 active cases, six deaths, and 183 recoveries.
Estacion noted her office is working with various local health units in intensifying contact tracing efforts especially on individuals who had contact with the previously reported COVID-19 cases.
“It’s not only the provincial contact tracing team. We go hand-in-hand parallel with the contact tracing team of Zamboanguita, Bacong, and City Health Office of Dumaguete,” Estacion said.
She made the statement to inform the public on what the provincial government is doing to trace and contain individuals who were exposed to COVID-19 positive patients.
Over the past days, local media outlets reported a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the province, as most of the victims are close contacts of previously identified COVID-19 patients. (ral/PIA NegOr)
source https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1056458
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