ROXAS City – This capital town logged its new confirmed case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), bringing the province’s total to five, according to Gov. Esteban Evan Contreras.
Contreras, through an official statement yesterday, said the patient is a 63-year-old male resident of Barangay Dayao. He had a history of travel to Metro Manila and arrived here on March 16 via Clark, Pampanga to Malay, Aklan flight.
The patient – previously labeled as high risk contact No. 4 and person under investigation (PUI) No. 46 – was exposed to COVID-19 confirmed cases No. 3 and No. 4, according to the governor’s statement.
His specimens, which were sent to the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) in Mandurriao, Iloilo city, tested negative twice for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, using a Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) machine on April 3 and 9, respectively.
The 63-year-old male was then transferred to Iloilo City for advanced medical management due to severe clinical manifestation. He was still considered what was previously called a PUI and went for a third RT-PCR testing, which yielded a positive result for SARS-COV-2.
To recall, the other four COVID-positive cases in Capiz are the following:
*A 53-year-old male from Mambusao town who is now in stable condition.
*A 44-year-old male working from Aklan province but is working in this town. He is now in stable condition.*A 60-year-old female from Barangay Dayao also. She succumbed to the virus on March 29.
*A 45-year-old male from Jamindan town, who is Capiz’s first person to test positive for COVID-19. He was discharged from the WVMC last week.
According to records of the Provincial Health Office here as of 12 p.m. on April 15, only this city and the towns of Mambusao Dao and Tapaz have persons on active quarantine period.
Roxas City has 59, Mambusao (1), Dao (4), and Tapaz (1)./PN
