A 70-year-old female doctor from Bataan
and five health workers from Cagayan and Nueva Vizcaya have tested positive for
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The Bataan inter-agency task force said
on Saturday that the doctor became the seventh confirmed COVID-19 case in
the province.
The task
force said two of the seven cases have recovered and were transferred to a
facility designated by the Department of Health, where they would complete
14-day quarantine before undergoing another test.
Reports said
the doctor earlier had guests from Manila at her house in Balanga City.
On March
10, she reportedly developed a fever and cold, and experienced sore throat and
difficulty in breathing.
The doctor
was taken to a hospital in Balanga City on March 15.
Meanwhile,
the regional health office in Cagayan and Nueva Vizcaya yesterday confirmed
that five health workers have tested positive for COVID-19.
Region 2 health director Leticia Cabrera
refused to confirm that among those infected is a doctor at the Cagayan Valley
Medical Center.
The doctor
reportedly treated a COVID patient, from whom he was believed to have
contracted the virus.
Three nurses
from the same hospital who took care of the patient tested positive for
COVID-19, Cabrera said.
In Nueva
Vizcaya, a 27-year-old nurse at the Regional Trauma Hospital and Medical Center
in Bayombong tested positive for the disease.
The nurse
reportedly helped take care of a 67-year-old patient who died of COVID.
First
cases
The city of Olongapo in Zambales and the
town of Asingan in Pangasinan each recorded their first confirmed COVID cases
over the weekend.
The Olongapo
COVID-19 task force said the 75-year-old man was first included in the list of
persons under investigation and has travel history in Manila.
“The patient
is in a stable condition and is confined at the Unihealth-Baypointe Hospital
and Medical Center located at Subic Bay Freeport zone,” Mayor Rolen Paulino Jr.
told The STAR yesterday.
The city has
been under extreme enhanced community quarantine since Thursday.
Meanwhile,
the patient in Asingan is a 66-year-old woman from Barangay Coldit, who has
travelled to London.
The woman
arrived on March 11 and was listed as a person under monitoring. She was
confined in a hospital in Dagupan City for fever and chest pain.
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