Davao records 3 more COVID-19 cases; brings to 9 total for Mindanao
DAVAO CITY, Davao del Sur, Philippines — Three more patients confined in various hospitals in the Davao Region have tested positive for COVID-19 infection, according to health officials.
This brings to nine the total COVID-19 cases in Mindanao, six of them in the Davao Region, and one each in the cities of Cotabato, Marawi and Cagayan de Oro.
In a bulletin issued on Monday evening, March 23, the Department of Health said the three had recent travel histories outside the region.
The DOH said both Patient 442, a 28-year-old male, and Patient 443, a 32-year-old male, had traveled to Metro Manila.
According to the NCOV tracker of the DOH, both were admitted at the Southern Philippines Medical Center here.
Meanwhile, Patient 444 is a 50-year-old male who reportedly had a travel history to Manila, Palawan, and Cebu. He was reportedly admitted to the Davao Regional Medical Center in Tagum City.
The three COVID-19 patients are “in stable condition,” the DOH said.
The DOH added that surveillance teams were immediately mobilized to conduct contact tracing of all possible exposed individuals especially those who had close contact with the three patients, in cooperation with the City Health Office.
Meanwhile, the couple known as Patient 262 and Patient 263 were admitted at SPMC and are reportedly in stable condition.
Patient 130, the 21-year-old female from Pantukan, was discharged from the Davao Regional Medical Center after she was cleared of the infection by attending health professionals on Monday, March 23.
Patient 130 was the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the region, and also the first patient in Mindanao to recover from the infection.
Two of the nine COVID-19 patients have died.
Meanwhile, the DOH disclosed that another person under investigation (PUI) in the region died on Monday afternoon while awaiting test results.
The recent death brings to six the total PUI deaths in the Davao region. Two of them have tested negative for the infection.
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