2 returning overseas workers from Leyte have COVID-19

TACLOBAN CITY –– Two returning overseas workers from Leyte province have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Health (DOH) said.

Dr. Minerva Molon, director of DOH in Eastern Visayas, said the new patients are from the town of Abuyog and Baybay City.

As of June 2, Eastern Visayas has 43 COVID-19 cases.

The latest patient is a 35-year old woman from Abuyog and a 32-year woman from Baybay City.

Molon said the town of Burauen, also in Leyte, has a new COVID-19 patient, who is a 43-year-old man.

She said they had yet to establish how the 43-year-old man acquired the dreaded virus.

All three new COVID-19 patients in Eastern Visayas are asymptomatic and are confined at different isolation facilities.

Molon appealed to OFWs and people, who availed of the “Balik Probinsiya” program, to be truthful in filling up their health declaration forms.

“In particular, they should give their correct and complete address and contact numbers. This way, it would be easy for them to monitor and conduct contact tracing,” Molon said.

“We found out that some of them have given us incorrect numbers. By the time we called them up, we could not contact them,” she added.

The DOH also asked the different local government units to help provide testing kits considering the rising number of returnees.