Medical frontliners undergo mass testing for COVID-19
BACOLOD City – Medical frontliners in Negros Occidental are now being subjected to mass testing as part of the preventive efforts against the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. Charina Magallanes Tan, spokesperson for the province’s COVID-19 Incident Command Center, said 112 swab specimens were sent to the West Visayas
By Dolly Yasa
By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – Medical frontliners in Negros Occidental are now being subjected to mass testing as part of the preventive efforts against the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19.
Charina Magallanes Tan, spokesperson for the province’s COVID-19 Incident Command Center, said 112 swab specimens were sent to the West Visayas Medical Center in Iloilo City and they are currently waiting for the results.
Tan said aside from those tagged as patients under investigation (PUIs), they are also testing persons who came into close contact with PUIs.
As of Tuesday, Tan said five close contacts of the COVID-19 positive patient from EB Magalona town tested negative of the virus.
She said 15 PUIs have also tested negative of the virus.
PUIs are persons with signs and symptoms and have travel history to infected areas.
The mass testing was made after the provincial government received additional testing kits from the Department of Health.
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