Facade of the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan, which disclosed to have initially treated the fifth case of COVID-19 in the Philippines. Screengrab from CSMC Facebook page.
MANILA, Philippines — The Cardinal Santos Medical Center (CSMC) located in San Juan City on Tuesday said it currently has no COVID-19 patient under its care.
CSMC announced this on Facebook and expressed gratitude to “all our medical frontliners who worked tirelessly since the pandemic started.”
“Being the first hospital to attend to the first recorded local transmission of COVID-19 in the Philippines, we are glad to announce that we have zero active COVID-19 patients on our COVID floors,” it said.
One of the first cases of COVID-19 in the country was recorded in March 2020. The patient was treated in CSMC before being transferred to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa City.
This news from CSMC comes as the Department of Health (DOH) noted low to minimal coronavirus risk in all regions.
There has been a continuous decline in the number of fresh infections that DOH reports daily.
READ: PH logs 235 fresh cases of COVID-19, lowest since May 23, 2020
As of December 14, the DOH said active cases nationwide were at 10,526. To date, 2,836,868 people have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 including the 2,775,991 who were able to survive the serious respiratory illness. The death toll, meanwhile, stood at 50,351.
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