IN ISOLATION. Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino (left) and IATF-EID chief implementer Sec. Roy Cimatu in one of the meetings with the business community in Cebu at the height of the pandemic in 2020. Dino on Monday (Feb. 15, 2021) said he is in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. (Photo courtesy of OPAV)
CEBU CITY – Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino has contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
In a statement released on Monday, Dino said he was exposed to an individual who earlier tested positive for coronavirus.
“I am currently under isolation after testing positive on Feb. 14, Sunday for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2),” he said.
Dino said there might be a possibility that those who met him recently also have contracted the virus.
“I am urging those who have come in close contact with me recently to have themselves tested for probable infection with Covid-19,” he said.
The presidential assistant who is holding office both in Malacañang and in this city has been actively working with other national and regional government agencies and local government units in crafting interventions to address the spike in coronavirus disease in Cebu.
He sought the help of President Rodrigo Duterte in June 2020 after this city and other neighboring LGUs experienced a spike in Covid-19 cases, prompting the national government to send the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF EID) headed by Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu. (PNA)
