10 in hospitals for close monitoring for COVID-19 in Palawan

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY—At least 10 persons in Palawan are now in different hospitals for closer health monitoring on suspicion they had been infected by the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.

Romalyn Racho, regional head of Health Education and Promotion Unit of the Department of Health (DOH), said that the persons under investigation, or PUI, are now in different hospitals and the DOH had already sent more health workers to help in patient management.

“We are extracting all our available resources to provide the local government units the augmentation they need,” said Racho. “All the assistance they need, whether technical or logistical, we see to it that we provide it at all means,” she said.

Patient No. 16, a 45-year-old female resident of Puerto Princesa City, had been discharged over the weekend after testing negative for COVID-19.

Four other patients—No. 19, 20, 27 and 28—had been confined to a government hospital in Puerto Princesa. One is a 23-year-old male Filipino. Another is a 30-year-old female Australian. Yet another is a 26-year-old male Australian. The fourth is a 48-year-old male Filipino.

Four others had been isolated at the Culion Sanitarium in northeast Palawan. They are a 22-year-old female Filipino, a 44-year-old male Filipino, a 42-year-old male Filipino and a 64-year-old male Filipino.

Other private hospitals in Puerto Princesa are closely watching two more PUIs—a 50-year-old male Australian and a 55-year-old male Filipino.

Respiratory samples from the patients had been sent to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine for tests.

Edited by TSB