3 more cops in Bacolod, Negros Occ. infected

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

 

BACOLOD City – Three more police officers here and in Negros Occidental are under quarantine after they tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Police Colonel Ariel Pico, public information officer of Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO), told Daily Guardian yesterday that the two additional infected officers were part of the augmentation personnel from Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 in Iloilo City deployed to BCPO while waiting for their Basic Internal Security Operations Course (Bisoc) training to start here.

Pico said the swab test results came out last week. Both police officers were asymptomatic, he added.

He said the close contacts of the two infected officers tested negative.

BCPO now has a total of five COVID cases among their personnel. They are all stable and on home quarantine while waiting for their repeat swab tests, he said.

Pico also said that the BCPO administrative office and the Mobile Patrol Unit office already resumed its operations yesterday, after its personnel completed their mandatory quarantine with negative results for COVID.

These offices were locked down earlier and the personnel were advised to be on home quarantine after being exposed to a colleague, who was the first COVID positive case at the BCPO, who is currently in Iloilo province.

Meanwhile, Police Major Edison Garcia, public information officer of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo), said another cop assigned in a hotel used as quarantine facility here for returning Negrenses also tested positive for the virus.

The swab test results came out last week, he said, adding that the policeman was asymptomatic.

The infected cop has no close contacts with other Nocppo personnel, Garcia said, as he was already on quarantine even before the results came out.

As of press time, Nocppo has three COVID cases.

Garcia said the previous two infected policemen already recovered.