Another senator tests positive for Covid-19

SENATOR Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara announced on Thursday that he tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

In a press statement, Angara said he found out about the result of his test on the same day as he has been “feeling some symptoms like mild fever, cough, headaches and general weakness.”

Angara, the third among the senators to have been infected with the dreaded virus, added that he has “not been in contact with the public since taking the test last March 16.”

On Wednesday, Senator Aquilino Martin “Koko Pimentel III also announced he tested positive for the virus, while Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri was the first to announce about his infection.

Angara said: “I ask for your prayers that together we are able to pull through this tremendous challenge.”

“Let us continue to support all efforts to fight the further spread of the virus. Let us support our frontliners on the streets, in the emergency rooms as they are key to the effort,” he added.

Meanwhile at the House of Representatives, Rep Eric Go Yap also announced on Wednesday that he also tested positive for the virus.

In a statement, Yap, chair of the Committee on Appropriation,

said he took the test on March 15 and received the result on March 25, after being exposed to persons infected with the respiratory virus.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share to all of you that I tested positive for coronavirus. Nagpa-test ako

noong March 15 at ngayong

araw, 10 days after, nakatanggap tayo ng tawag mula sa DOH [Department of Health] upang iparating sa akin ang resulta (I got myself tested on March 15, and today, 10 days after, I received a call from the DOH to inform me about the results),” Yap said. “Inis at galit ang naramdaman ko dahil alam ko sa

sarili ko na maaaring nailagay ko sa alanganin ang buhay ng mga taong nakapaligid

sa akin (I feel vexed and angry because I know that I may have endangered the lives of the people around me),” he added.

Yap noted that on March 21, he attended a meeting in Malacañang to discuss the government’s steps to combat the Covid-19 crisis. “Bago tayo magpunta doon, nagtanong ako kung may resulta na ang aking test, pero wala pa daw (Before going there, I asked for the test result, but it was not yet complete). I attended the meeting and was careful the whole time knowing na (that) I could potentially be a carrier of the virus,” he said. with PNA report