DUMAGUETE CITY, Aug. 11 (PIA) – A total of 18 Persons Under Monitoring (PUMs) were released from different isolation facilities in Dumaguete City yesterday after completing the mandatory 14-day quarantine period without showing any signs and symptoms of Influenza Like Illness or ILI.
Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo approved their release so they could return back to their respective families upon the recommendation of City Health Officer Dr. Ma. Sarah Talla.
The city has four new PUMs quarantined, including a 10-year-old with fever and cough with no history of travel and three Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Singapore, Dubai, and Vietnam.
For now, of the 139 PUMs, 65 are in designated hotel facilities, 27 in the community isolation center, and 47 are under home quarantine or in barangay isolation centers.
Meanwhile, the two close contacts of COVID Case No. 7 - male, 32-year-old, a resident of Poblacion 1, locally stranded individual from Cebu City - tested negative in RT-PCR.
Talla identified them as the wife of COVID Case No. 7 (cancer patient who died at Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital on July 24, 2020) and mother-in-law of COVID Case No. 7 who traveled with the couple to Cebu City and back to Negros Oriental.
The three active cases, namely COVID Case No. 7, COVID Case No. 3 (male, with travel history from Cebu City) and COVID Case No. 8 (female, a resident of Brgy. Cadawinonan) will be subjected to repeat swab tests.
Finally, two close contacts of the son of the deceased COVID Case No. 6 from Brgy. Cadawinonan will also undergo swab test today.
They are asymptomatic and remain in isolation, acccording to authorities. (jct/PIA7 Negros Oriental with reports from CPIO Dems Demecillo)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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