CABANATUAN CITY – Four people in their 40s brought to 85 the positive cases of coronavirus disease in Nueva Ecija, the provincial inter-agency task force reported on Tuesday.
This, even as two of the previously 81 reported cases have recovered, said the NE-IATF. They were Patient 66, a 78-year-old man from Lawang Kupang, San Antonio and Patient 68, a 21-year-old seaman from Sta. Clara, Quezon.
A 46-year-old woman from this city who is currently undergoing treatment at St. Luke’s Global City is Nueva Ecija’s Patient 82 while a 43-year-old blue guard from Cuyapo is Patient 83.
Based on record from the Department of Health, the IATF noted, the blue guard might have been exposed to a Covid-19 patient from June 20-26.
Patient 84 is a 45-year-old businesswoman from Cuyapo who had travelled to Tarlac and Pangasinan who was swabbed before a surgical operation on a different case at Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center, the report said.
The last, Patient 85, is a 40-year-old male employee from this city working in an unspecified branch of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.
The patient reportedly did not leave this city since the imposition of community quarantine on March 16.
The latest development brought to 14 the active Covid-19 cases in the province’s log having 67 recoveries and four deaths.
Authorities reiterate advice to the public to practice health protocols, including use of disinfectant, frequent washing of hands, social distancing, and wearing of face masks.
