2 Dagupan radio employees test positive for COVID-19

DAGUPAN CITY –– A driver and a technician working for a local radio broadcast company tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

They have not displayed symptoms of the disease, and have been admitted at the Region I Medical Center (R1MC).

The Department of Health said the two new patients were among the company employees tested on June 8 by provincial health office personnel.

Their laboratory results from the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center indicated they have contracted the disease. BGHMC in Baguio City is the closest facility with a molecular laboratory.

Meanwhile, 13 of the city’s health frontliners, who were infected with the virus, have recovered and were discharged from R1MC on June 12.

A 14th patient, who is confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City, has also beaten the disease and is awaiting the result of his second test, according to Dr. Ophelia Rivera, Dagupan’s focal person for COVID-19.

They were among the 1,400 high-risk city government workers, who submitted swab samples from May 27 to June 2, after Dagupan Mayor Brian Lim enforced expanded testing for COVID-19.

Ten of them are Dagupan residents, while the rest are from the towns of San Fabian, Mangaldan and Calasiao, and San Carlos City. They were all asymptomatic.

Since March, the city has recorded 23 COVID-19 cases, including an 80-year-old diabetic, who died in April.

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