The Department of Health (DoH) confirmed today and the infected person is a female traveler who arrived in the country on May 18 from the United States, whose throat specimen tested positive based on results from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque said in a press conference at the World Health Organization Regional office in Manila. Tayag declined to identify the research facility where the girl is being quarantined and treated. Measures are being done to prevent transmission including quarantine of immediate household of the first case. The first case is something we have been preparing for and a result of public and private sectors’ effective surveillance system.” The patient is currently being monitored while her immediate household was advised to follow quarantine and social distancing procedures from the DoH, said Duque.
We should observe proper hygiene, strengthen resistance and do social distancing—avoid going to crowded areas if the need is not urgent.
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