BAGUIO CITY -- A
coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-positive patient visited Baguio City last March
9-11 while she was already manifesting symptoms before coming to the summer capital
after her travel to Hiroshima, Japan.
Mayor
Benjamin Magalong however said the visitor who was tested and found positive in
Paranaque was not a confirmed case of Baguio City since she was just in transit
while she was already symptomatic.
The local
chief executive said the 24-year old female employee manifested mild symptoms
of the deadly virus before coming up to the city to attend a seminar in one of
the famous hotels in the city.
However, when
she and her fellow workers went back to Metro Manila, she was constrained to
undergo a medical checkup at the San Juan de Dios Hospital due to persistent
occasional cough.
Based on the
initial interviews done on her by health experts, the confirmatory test results
that she was positive of Covid was released to her by the Research Institute
for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on March 15 where she reported the matter to her
mother agency.
On Feb.
16-25, the confirmed Covid case from Parañaque reportedly travelled to
Hiroshima, Japan but she was asymptomatic when she arrived in the country.
On March 7-8,
she had occasional cough with no fever that is why she was not tested to have
fever by the thermal scanner and was still able to join the trip of her agency
and attend the 3-day seminar in the city.
The City Health and
Services Office under Dr. Rowena Galpo is currently undertaking contact tracing
in places visited by the patient while in the city.
The hotel
where the patient stayed in the city already did disinfection and complete
sanitation protocol. -- Dexter See and Aileen Refuerzo
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