Google map of M'lang town, North Cotabato.
COTABATO CITY – Health authorities in the North Cotabato town of M’lang are monitoring two female Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who recently returned home for possible infection from coronavirus disease 2019 (CoVid-19), the acute respiratory ailment that claimed many lives, mostly in China.
Minerva Suriaga, disease surveillance officer of M’lang municipal health office, said one of those placed under monitoring is an OFW from the United Kingdom whose plane had a stopover in Singapore.
The person arrived in M’lang on Feb. 5 with no symptoms of the disease but was placed under a 14-day quarantine by municipal health workers to ensure the safety of others.
“She was cooperative, there was no resistance,” Suriaga said in a local radio interview Friday, adding that a health worker regularly visits the OFW in her isolated quarters.
Suriaga also said that another OFW arrived home from Bahrain but her plane had a stopover in Hong Kong.
Both persons are listed as a “Person Under Monitoring (PUM)” and have so far shown no symptoms that they are infected with the virus. (PNA)
