Subic guest from Ifugao Covid-positive

By Joanna Rose Aglibot 

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT –– A guest from Ifugao province who arrived in this freeport to attend a seminar has tested positive for Covid-19. Dr. Solomon Jacalne, public health and safety department manager of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, on Jan. 27, said the guest was supposed to attend a seminar in Subic Bay Travelers Hotel and Event Center.
    But the guest arrived at the freeport without a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR test result, Jacalne said in an advisory.
    Jacalne said the guest was barred from entering the hotel and was sent to a designated quarantine hotel where he underwent a swab test.
    The seminar was reportedly organized by the Dept. of Agrarian Reform.
    Jacalne said the guest was exposed to a virus-infected officemate.
    The guest is no longer in the freeport after an ambulance fetched him from a quarantine hotel on Wednesday morning.