PAGADIAN
CITY—Here’s what everyone in the province is anticipating nervously. Governor Victor
Yu has confirmed today, March 30, that they have two persons under
investigation (PUI) who are positive at last.
Yu
said the two PUIs have symptoms for COVID-19. One is a 52-year-old man from
Labangan, who had gone from Taguig and Zamboanga cities. The other is a 62-year-old
woman who went to Manila and arrived here early March.
Dr.
Anatalio Cagampang, Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center (ZSMC) chief of hospital said
the elderly man from Labangan is presently confined there since March 17.
The
man exhibited cough, sore throat, fever and colds, sure COVID-19 symptoms after
his arrival at the hospital and had been placed in ZSMC’s isolation area.
The
woman PUI who came from Manila complained of having cough, sore throat and
colds to them last March 19.
Cagampang
said the two PUI patients are both physically able and not severe as the
province immediately deployed a team to conduct contact tracing for persons who
may have been exposed to the two transmitter of the disease.
The
governor said that these two positive cases in the province will not incite the
Zamboanga del Sur Task Force COVID-19 into action and order a lockdown in the
province for now.
Yu
said he will just order the intensification of security patrols along the
borders of the province on instances of people from other places from entering.
Latest
update from Zamboanga del Sur listed a total of 6 PUI patients confined in
hospitals for a total of 74 PUIs; with 1 PUI discharged. A total of 4,079 are persons
under monitoring (PUMs) and 923 PUMs have completed their 14-day quarantine. (m.medina)