ZAMBOANGA CITY – A local woman who had travelled to Manila and returned here has been tested positive for the coronavirus, or Covid-19, bringing to 2 the number of those infected with the deadly respiratory disease in Zamboanga, Mayor Beng Climaco announced Monday.
“Our second case is a 48-year old female from Barangay Tumaga with history of travel from Manila. She is currently confined in the Covid-19 Isolation Room of West Metro Medical Center.”
“Due to strict measures and protocols implemented by the hospital administration and its health workers, the patient was screened early, has been isolated since the screening and is being managed well,” she said, adding, the woman will be transferred to the Covid-19 facility at the Zamboanga City Medical Center.
“As this develop, we request residents to remain calm and not panic. The local government, West Metro, and health authorities are following protocols for the proper handling of our second case and has initiated contact tracing,” she said without further elaborating.
Climaco has renewed her appeals to residents to stay at home to prevent infection and spread of the virus.
Last week, a 29-year old man who returned here from Manila was also tested positive for the Covid-19, and is now placed under a strict quarantine. The man, who works as an engineer, arrived on March 13 on a Philippine Airline flight PR 2993.
The man was swabbed for Covid-19 testing after he went to the West Metro Medical Center on March 16 for mild symptoms of the respiratory disease.
The local government imposed an enhanced community quarantine since early this month to stop the spread of the virus that has infected over 1400 people in the country and had already killed over 6 dozen more, mostly in metropolitan areas in Luzon which is now in total lockdown.
Zamboanga now has 22 persons under investigation, or PUIs, and over 1700 persons under monitoring, or PUMs. PUI is a person that shows symptoms of cough, colds and fever with a travel or contact history to countries or person that is affected with Covid-19.
And PUM are those with travel and contact history to countries or person that is affected with Covid 19 but not displayed any symptoms and is advised to undergo a 14-day self-quarantine at home to be monitored by health workers.
The Covid-19, now a global pandemic, broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year, and quickly spread to over 100 countries with China recording over 81,000 infections and more than 3,200 deaths.
The local government has imposed a curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Shops, offices and schools remain closed, except for pharmacies, supermarkets, grocery stores, markets, bakeries, medical clinics, delivery services, water stations, food and medical manufacturing and processing plants, money shops, commercial banks, utilities and telecommunication facilities and some restaurants which are strictly selling only food-to-go. (Zamboanga Post)
“Due to strict measures and protocols implemented by the hospital administration and its health workers, the patient was screened early, has been isolated since the screening and is being managed well,” she said, adding, the woman will be transferred to the Covid-19 facility at the Zamboanga City Medical Center.
“As this develop, we request residents to remain calm and not panic. The local government, West Metro, and health authorities are following protocols for the proper handling of our second case and has initiated contact tracing,” she said without further elaborating.
Climaco has renewed her appeals to residents to stay at home to prevent infection and spread of the virus.
Last week, a 29-year old man who returned here from Manila was also tested positive for the Covid-19, and is now placed under a strict quarantine. The man, who works as an engineer, arrived on March 13 on a Philippine Airline flight PR 2993.
The man was swabbed for Covid-19 testing after he went to the West Metro Medical Center on March 16 for mild symptoms of the respiratory disease.
The local government imposed an enhanced community quarantine since early this month to stop the spread of the virus that has infected over 1400 people in the country and had already killed over 6 dozen more, mostly in metropolitan areas in Luzon which is now in total lockdown.
Zamboanga now has 22 persons under investigation, or PUIs, and over 1700 persons under monitoring, or PUMs. PUI is a person that shows symptoms of cough, colds and fever with a travel or contact history to countries or person that is affected with Covid-19.
And PUM are those with travel and contact history to countries or person that is affected with Covid 19 but not displayed any symptoms and is advised to undergo a 14-day self-quarantine at home to be monitored by health workers.
The Covid-19, now a global pandemic, broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year, and quickly spread to over 100 countries with China recording over 81,000 infections and more than 3,200 deaths.
The local government has imposed a curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Shops, offices and schools remain closed, except for pharmacies, supermarkets, grocery stores, markets, bakeries, medical clinics, delivery services, water stations, food and medical manufacturing and processing plants, money shops, commercial banks, utilities and telecommunication facilities and some restaurants which are strictly selling only food-to-go. (Zamboanga Post)
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