BREAKING NEWS: Bacolod City has one (1) Patient Under Investigation (PUI) for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

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Breaking News! Bacolod City has one (1) Patient under Investigation (PUI), source ABS-CBN TV Patrol Negros Facebook Page. One patient is from Singapore and now closely monitored her situation today. According to the Chairman of the Task Force against COVID-19 Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, the PUI has obtained a specimen through a cotton swab test to be examined at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine.

Familiaran added that when the woman arrived about three days later, she had a fever, a sore throat, and a cough. Meanwhile, Bacolod City has 23 Persons Under Monitoring (PUM), eight have been cleared on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), after completing the 14-day quarantine period according to Familiaran.

But there are four new PUMs in the city. According to him, the four were from Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, and China. At least 19 of the remaining PUMs left. A 14-day quarantine should strictly undergo, said by Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran.

As of March 11, 2020, the Department of Health announced that there were 33 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Philippines. As of March 11, 2020 morning, more than 118,661 people have been infected and over 4,269 have died worldwide from the novel coronavirus, have reached some 80 countries and territories. There are 65,105 recovered from the epidemic disease.

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