Arevalo district posts 8th COVID-19 case

By Emme Rose Santiagudo

Western Visayas recorded one new case on Sunday, a 39-year-old female from the district of Arevalo in Iloilo City.

The Department of Health in Western Visayas -Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD 6) confirmed the additional case in a bulletin issued on Sunday.

Dr. May Ann Soliva-Sta. Lucia, Health Promotion Cluster head of DOH-CHD 6, said the patient identified as WV Patient No. 93 is currently under facility quarantine.

“Out of the 186 laboratory results released, only one tested positive for Covid-19. The patient is a 39-year-old female from Arevalo, Iloilo City and has been facility quarantined,” she said in a virtual press briefing on Sunday.

The patient is the eighth confirmed case in Arevalo district, which now accounts for half of the total COVID-19 cases in Iloilo City at 16.

Six of the eight cases in Arevalo are from Brgy. Sto Niño Sur. The city government has yet to confirm if the latest case is also from the same village.

The COVID-19- cases in the barangay include a driver of the Iloilo City Emergency Response (ICER), four barangay health workers (BHW), and one barangay kagawad.

Sto. Niño Sur was recently placed under Extreme Enhanced Community Quarantine (EECQ) by the city government following the surge in COVID-19 cases in the barangay.

Mayor Jerry Treñas already lifted the EECQ in Brgy. Sto Niño Sur on Friday upon recommendation of health experts.

 

The mayor has said that there is no need to extend the EECQ as the city government has already conducted mass testing and disinfection in the village.

 

“Naka-mass testing na kita umpisa pa sang ligad semana. Ang importante lang istriktuhon nila ang mga protocols,” he said in previous media interviews.

 

As of May 11, 2020, the total registered Covid-19 cases in the region is at 93 with 38 recoveries and ten deaths.

 

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Meanwhile, the last patient in the town of Miag-ao in Iloilo province has recovered from COVID-19, the DOH-CHD 6 reported Saturday.

Based in Bulletin Case No. 44 of DOH-CHD 6, the patient, a 21-year-old male (WV Patient No. 42), is among the two new additional recoveries recorded in the region.

A 42-year-old male from La Castallena, Negros Occidental (WV Patient No. 53) also survived COVID-19, according to Dr. Sta. Lucia.

“As of May 9, 2020, we have recorded two new recoveries in the region involving WV Patient No. 42 from Miagao, Iloilo and WV Patient No. 53 from La Castallena, Negros Occidental,” she said in a virtual press briefing on Saturday.

Miagao has three confirmed COVID-19 cases. The first case in the town is a 22-year-old female who had travel history to Metro Manila (WV Patient No. 12). She has also recovered after testing negative in her repeat-test.

A 94-year-old male with unknown travel history and exposure (WV Patient No. 31) was the second case in Miagao. The patient, who is also the oldest to contract the virus in the entire region, expired on April 7 after suffering from cardiac arrest in the hospital.

The region has logged 38 COVID-19 survivors.

Iloilo province recorded the highest number of recoveries with 11 followed by Bacolod City and Aklan with 6; Iloilo City and Antique with 4; Capiz with 3; and Negros Occidental with 2.