CABANATUAN CITY — From 121 on Friday, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in Nueva Ecija jumped to 133, with a physician and five medical frontliners included, as of Sunday.
Reports from the Nueva Ecija inter-agency task force showed the 72-year-old male physician from this city had travelled to Quezon City where he went to a bank, attended a birthday party, and visited a sibling earlier this month.
Of the health workers, one is a resident of Science City of Muñoz who works at Premiere Medical Center here, a male nursing attendant in Palayan City, and three who were believed to have been exposed go a 70-year-old patient who died on July 16 in Barangay Triala, Guimba, Nueva Ecija, said the NEIATF.
Also included in the new list were two residents of Jaen town, a 36-year-old security guard who had travelled to Quezon City, and a woman from Palayan City.
The list provided by the Department of Health to NEIATF also included the live-in partner of a vendor in Sangitan Market who earlier tested positive of Covid-19, a 44-year-old man who underwent swabbing after suffering severe cough, and a 63-year-old woman from San Isidro town who was stranded in Singapore from March 1 to July 13.
The patients were either in strict home quarantine or in a designated quarantine facility, the report said.
