Frontliner’s colleagues negative for COVID-19
BACOLOD City – Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said the head of the Negros Occidental Disaster Management Program Division (DMPD) and 23 others tested negative for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The group was subjected to swab test after an ambulance driver who transported COVID-19-positive repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from their hotels to

By Dolly Yasa
By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said the head of the Negros Occidental Disaster Management Program Division (DMPD) and 23 others tested negative for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The group was subjected to swab test after an ambulance driver who transported COVID-19-positive repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from their hotels to the quarantine facility also got infected.
The 47-year-old ambulance driver from Minoyan, Murcia along with his colleagues is quarantined at the EB Magalona Healing Center.
Diaz said the release of the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test results of the disaster team was hastened to enable those who tested negative to return to work.
He said frontliners are also in charge of fetching returning Locally Stranded Individuals and bring them to the quarantine facilities.
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