GUINOBATAN, Albay –– The local government and healthcare workers here will conduct further investigation to determine how a 78-year-old man contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
“He is already old, and he doesn’t go outside, so we will do our very best to know where he was exposed,” Municipal Health Officer Dr. Joana Limos, said in an online announcement.
Health care workers and local officials have started to contact trace and lock down a portion of a village where the new COVID-19 patient resides.
The DOH reported him as the fifth COVID-19 patient in this town around 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
Guinobatan Mayor Ann Ongjoco said the patient, the oldest COVID-19 patient in Bicol so far, lived in Zone 1 of Lower Binogsacan village.
The Department of Health in Bicol said the patient’s illness started on April 11. He was admitted to the Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital in Legazpi City.
This development came six days after the last of the four patients in San Rafael village, also in this town, recovered from the disease.