5-year-old tests Covid positive in NVizcaya
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: The Provincial Health Office (PHO) here on Monday confirmed the third coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) case in the province of Nueva Vizcaya.
Dr. Edwin Galapon, PHO chief, said the victim is a five- year- old girl from Alfonso Castañeda town who was hospitalized at the Premiere General Hospital in Cabanatuan City in Nueva Ecija province.
Galapon added that health workers are intensifying their contact-tracing in Alfonso Castañeda to prevent further spread of the disease among town and village residents there.
Nueva Vizcaya’s first Covid-19 case was also the first fatality Region 2 (Cagayan Valley).
The patient from Barangay Roxas in Solano town died last week.
The second Covid-19 case in Nueva Vizcaya was that of a nurse from Barangay Magsaysay in Bayombong town, who was reportedly in a stable condition at the Region 2 Trauma and Medical Center in the town.
Galapon appealed to the public to remain in their homes to avoid being infected by the dreaded virus.
In Zamboanga City, a local woman who had traveled to Manila and returned here tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing to two the number of those infected with the disease in the city, Mayor Isabelle Climaco-Salazar said also on Monday.
The woman, 48, from Barangay Tumaga is confined at the Covid-19 isolation room of the West Metro Medical Center.
Climaco-Salazar renewed her appeal to residents to stay at home to prevent infection and spread of the virus. The local government has imposed a curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
17 Covid in CAR
Health authorities in the Cordillera Administrative Region has also confirmed that the number of Covid-19 cases in the region has increased to 17.
The Cordillera office of the Health department, said Baguio accounted for the most number of the cases with 12, including the first case that was able to recover from the virus, followed by Abra and Benguet with two confirmed cases each.
Benguet had the highest number of persons under investigation (PUIs) with 384 where 20 were admitted to hospitals, 218 were under home quarantine and 146 had been discharged.
Baguio had 138 PUIs with 38 confined in hospitals, 68 were under home quarantine and 32 were discharged.
Apayao had 53 PUIs where 14 were hospitalized, 38 were under home quarantine and one was discharged.
Kalinga had 40 PUIs where 4 were confined in the hospital, 34 were under home quarantine and two were discharged.
Mountain Province had 35 PUIs where 6 were confined in hospitals, 23 were under home quarantine and 6 had been discharged.
Abra had 20 PUIs where no one was confined in the hospital, 11 were under home quarantine and 9 were discharged.
Ifugao had one PUI, with no one hospitalized, 9 were under home quarantine and one was discharged.
Panic in Bataan
In Mariveles, Bataan, Mayor Jocelyn Castaneda also on Monday denied alleged reports of harassment of personnel of the Mariveles Mental Wellness General Hospital (MMWGH), formerly the Mariveles Mental Hospital.
She, however, admitted that there was panic among residents on the night of March 26, when unknown to them, some patients with Covid-19 were transferred to the MMWGH from New Clark City.
After receiving assurance from the chief of the hospital that the patients were properly isolated and the staff well protected, she said, the fear of the residents vanished.
Dr. Lourdes Evangelista, MMWGH chief, assured the public that the patients suffering from mild to moderate Covid-19 were under strict protocol guidelines and local transmission was far- fetched.
Evangelista said the five patients were transferred from New Clark City to the Mariveles hospital because the Jose Lingad Memorial Hospital in San Fernando, Pampanga and Bataan General Hospital in Balanga City were already full.