CONTACT TRACING. The Department of Health in Bicol on Monday began tracing the persons who came in contact with Joey Bautista (in photo), singer of Mulatto band, who recently died due to Covid-19. The band performed in a birthday party in Legazpi City last March 11, attended by some 200 persons. (Photo from Joey Bautista's Facebook page)
LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Health (DOH) in Bicol on Monday began the contact tracing for persons who had close contact with Joey Bautista, the lead singer of the Mulatto band who recently died due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
In a phone interview, Dr. Ernie Vera, DOH-Bicol regional director, said the contact tracing would focus on primary and secondary persons who came in contact with Bautista whose band performed during a birthday party at a hotel and convention center here last March 11.
Vera added that aside from the people who attended the party, they are also tracing the identity and whereabouts of a man that gave a massage to Bautista in his hotel room and several others who flew with him inside a Cebu Pacific plane to Manila.
“We are about to gather and search for more or less 20 persons considered as primary and secondary persons with high probability of having close encounter with Bautista,” Vera said.
Some 200 persons including prominent guests reportedly attended the birthday bash of a 65-year-old woman where Mulatto performed.
The contact tracing, Vera said, would be finished on Friday and those identified and located would be registered as persons under monitoring (PUMs) with their respective villages and asked to undergo a 14-day self-quarantine. (PNA)
