3rd healthworker tests positive for COVID-19 in Palawan
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY—Another healthcare worker at the Ospital ng Palawan (ONP) tested positive for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the third confirmed case at the province’s main virus response facility.
Dr. Dean Palanca, city incident commander, in an online briefing Monday morning, said that the new case is a female nurse who has no severe symptoms. Her result came out Sunday night from the ONP’s laboratory center.
“[The patient] is a female medical personnel, a nurse who got infected with COVID-19. She’s already a confirmed case based on official result [of her confirmatory test],” Dr. Palanca said.
Palanca stressed that the patient was already transferred to their isolation facility where she will be monitored and treated.
The Palawan province recorded a total of 17 confirmed COVID-19 patients, 15 of which were active cases, one recovered patient, and one casualty, as of Monday noon (June 22).
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