Negros Oriental Assistant Provincial Health Officer Dr. Liland Estacion. (PNA file photo courtesy of Capitol PIO)
DUMAGUETE CITY – The number of recoveries from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Negros Oriental has reached 197 even as six new positive infections were reported Thursday.
Assistant provincial health officer Dr. Liland Estacion, the incident commander of the province’s Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), in a press briefing, said they received 140 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results from Cebu City.
Of the total, 134 were negative and six were positive, including one who is not from Negros Oriental but an Army soldier assigned in Tanjay City, Estacion said.
The new cases are a 35-year-old-male authorized person outside of residence (APOR) assigned at the 302nd Infantry Brigade in Tanjay City; a 31-year-old-male APOR/front-liner who is a police officer from Ayungon; and four local transmissions, all from Zamboanguita -- a 28-year-old-male; a 19-year-old-female; a 48-year-old-male; and a 25-year-old-female.
Estacion said all the Zamboanguita patients have direct contact with previously reported Covid-19 positive cases.
She also said the latest recovery is patient NegOr CoV 192, a three-week-old-infant who is a locally stranded individual (LSI) from an undisclosed place.
The province is awaiting 380 pending results while the total swab tests done in Negros Oriental is now 9,325, Estacion said.
The total cases in the province have now reached 270 with 197 recoveries, 67 active infections, and six deaths, she added.
The summary of active cases is as follows: Zamboanguita (15); Guihulngan City (13); Dumaguete City (12); Bayawan City (8); Tayasan (5); La Libertad (3); Sta. Catalina and Tanjay City (two each); Ayungon, Basay, Dauin, Bacong, and Sibulan (one each); Silliman University Medical Center (one referral from San Carlos City, Negros Occidental); and 302nd Brigade in Camp Leon Kilat, Tanjay City (one), Estacion said. (PNA)
