1-year-old girl is youngest COVID-19 patient in Northern Mindanao
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines —A one-year-old girl from Gingoog City became the youngest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in the region after she and her father tested positive for the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus on Saturday.
Gingoog City Mayor Erick Canosa said the girl’s father, a 30-year-old construction worker from Tondo, Manila, arrived together with his wife at the port of Cagayan de Oro last June 10.
Canosa said the woman tested negative but the father and child both tested positive based on the Xpert Express PCR tests at the Northern Mindanao Medical Center.
The family arrived on board a passenger ferry under the “Balik-Probinsiya, Bagong Pag-asa” program of the national government.
The father and the girl are now confined in an isolation facility in Gingoog city as the mayor appealed to Gingoog residents for compassion.
As of June 3, this year, Misamis Oriental posted three active COVID-19 cases while Northern Mindanao’s number of cases already climbed to 50.
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