COVID-19 PATIENT. The Sibalom National High School in Sibalom town proper serves as an isolation facility for locally stranded individuals (LSIs) and returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). The facility currently hosts three of the family members of the city's first Covid-19 confirmed case, the local government said on Wednesday (July 29, 2020). (Photo courtesy of Sibalom LGU)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The province of Antique on Tuesday recorded one more confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) case among locally stranded individuals (LSIs) in the town of Sibalom.
Sibalom Mayor Gian Carlo Occeña said that the new confirmed case is an LSI who arrived from Malate, Manila with three members of his family last July 23.
They underwent the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test July 25 and the result for the 30-year old male confirmed case was released on July 28, making him the first confirmed case in Sibalom town.
“The first Covid-19 patient manifested signs and symptoms last July 24. A day after he arrived and the RT-PCR test was conducted,” Occeña said in an interview Wednesday.
Immediately, the municipal health office transferred the four of them to an isolation facility instead of allowing them to undergo home quarantine.
“The three family members of the patient also had their test last July 25 but their results have not yet come out,” the mayor said.
As of Tuesday, Antique has 25 confirmed Covid-19 cases to already include LSIs, a Returning overseas Filipino, and local cases, the Antique Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) said.
However, 20 have already recovered and Antique is left with five active cases -- four LSIs and a ROF.
Three LSIs are San Remigio residents, one from Sibalom, and one ROF from this capital town.
The San Remigio confirmed cases are being quarantined in the isolation facility while the ROF here is under home quarantine but closely secured by the barangay officials. (PNA)
