Old woman tests positive for coronavirus in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A nonagenarian woman has been tested positive for the new coronavirus disease, or Covid-19, in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines which is now under a strict enhanced community quarantine, the Department of Health, or DOH, said Thursday.

It said the 94-year old woman, who lives in Veterans Avenue, is now confined in a private hospital. She has no travel history outside Zamboanga.

Mayor Beng Climaco renewed her appeal to residents, especially the elderly and children, to stay at home.

“Once again, we remind the public to please remain calm and to remain home. At this time, the best course of action to take is to stay home, maintain social distancing, and practice regular hand washing,” she said.

Climaco also urged residents who have Facebook account to change their social media profile picture to support a campaign to encourage everyone to tell medical workers the truth about symptoms, exposure and travel history during Covid-19 screening. 

She said Facebook users can click this link to change your profile picture: www.facebook.com/profilepicframes/?selected_overlay_id=243341063458948.

“When we don't tell doctors, nurses and other health frontliners the truth, we put their lives in danger and we might not get the right and timely treatment. Please encourage others to change their profile picture too by simply forwarding this message to as many others as possible,” Climaco said.

Just recently, a local doctor in his 30s - classified as person under investigation, or PUI, - died from suspected Covid-19 in hospital even before test results for the deadly respiratory disease could come out.

PUI is an individual who shows symptoms of cough, colds and fever with a travel or contact history to countries or person that is affected with Covid- 19, and being admitted in the hospital for observation.

DOH also reported that a local woman who is also medical frontliner in Manila is tested positive for Covid-19 and the second Zamboanguena in Manila to have contracted the disease. Both of them have been included in the Covid list for Zamboanga City being local residents, although they live and work in Manila.

Just over the weekend, a 47-year old local man who travelled to Malaysia and returned home in Talon-Talon village, but later on transferred to the village of San Jose Gusu, is also tested positive for the disease and is the 4th infected with Covid-19 in Zamboanga.

The man, an Islamic missionary, is currently in hospital along with the others - a 30-year old woman in Tetuan village; a 48-year old woman from Tumaga village, and a 29-year old man from the village of Sinunuc.

Also on Sunday, a 25-year old man who was suffering from fever and body malaise died in his home in the village of Recodo, prompting village chieftain Wahab Iba to cordon the man’s house fearing the death was due to Covid-19. (Zamboanga Post)

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