Negros Occidental has 6 new COVID-19 patients
BACOLOD CITY –– Five persons here and a 30-year-old man from Hinigaran town were the latest victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the city and Negros Occidental.
The patients from Bacolod City are a woman from Barangay Estefania who arrived from Manila on May 26, and four overseas Filipino workers.
Estefania Barangay Captain Jerry Tingson said the woman from their village, identified as Patient 23, has been placed in a quarantine facility.
Twenty-two houses in Block 78, Purok Pagasa in Estefania were also locked down as a precaution against the spread of the virus.
The other Bacolod City patients are a 40-year-old male from Saudi Arabia, a 38-year-old female from Kuwait, a 35-year-old seafarer from the United Kingdom, and a 37-year-old male from Saudi Arabia.
The five patients from Bacolod City and the other one from Hinigaran town were asymptomatic.
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