DOH list in Cebu: 7 more suspected COVID-19 cases awaiting definitive test results | Inquirer News

DOH list in Cebu: 7 more suspected COVID-19 cases awaiting definitive test results

/ 06:36 PM March 26, 2020

CEBU CITY—The Department of Health (DOH) in Central Visayas confirmed seven new cases that regional health officials, coining a new term, described as “presumptive positive” COVID-19 in the province of Cebu.

This brought to 15 the total number of such cases in the province, including in the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu.

Dr. Jaime Bernados, DOH regional director, defined presumptive positive as a case which was awaiting definitive test results from the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine.

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The DOH regional office counted 12 such cases in Cebu City, one each in Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu.

As of March 26, however, health officials in the province said there was just one “absolute positive case” of COVID-19, that of a 65-year-old man confined at the Chong Hua Hospital in Mandaue City.

Edited by TSB
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