Bocaue, Bulacan mayor, councilor test positive for COVID-19
In his Facebook account, Bocaue Mayor Jose Santiago Jr. on Wednesday announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is undergoing self-quarantine.
BOCAUE, Bulacan – The mayor and a councilor of this town have contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), even as the municipal hall was temporarily locked down on Wednesday.
Mayor Jose Santiago Jr. and Councilor Aldrin Sta. Ana both tested positive for COVID-19 after undergoing a swab tests at the Joni Villanueva Molecular Laboratory facility here.
Santiago said he had been exposed to an infected individual.
It was not clear how Sta. Ana contracted COVID-19.
Both are asymptomatic and are on self- quarantine in their respective homes.
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