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TUGUEGARAO CITY – A hospital nurse was discharged Tuesday (May 12) from the Cagayan Valley Medical Center (CVMC) here after recovering from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and was sent home for a “strictly monitored” 14-day quarantine.
Dr. Glenn Mathew Baggao, CVMC hospital chief, told the Philippine News Agency on Tuesday that the nurse, who was PH8636 and a resident of Barangay Carig Sur in this city, was confirmed negative of Covid-19 on her second swab test on Monday.
The lone remaining Covid-19 patient here, a doctor of the same hospital who contracted the disease while treating coronavirus patients, is asymptomatic and in stable condition. However, her second swab test has yet to be released from the Baguio City Medical Center.
“So far, we had 17 confirmed cases and 12 came from Tuguegarao City. Now, we have 16 negative of the virus,” Baggao said.
Doctors are also awaiting the second test result of PH8638 from Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya who is confined at the Region 2 Trauma Medical Center in the said province. On May 6, the patient turned negative of Covid-19 in the second swab test.
Thirty-four cases and a lone fatality were recorded in Nueva Vizcaya.
Meanwhile, all the 10 patients in Isabela have fully recovered from the dreaded disease.
Quirino and Batanes have remained Covid-19-free. (PNA)
