CABANATUAN CITY – The number of confirmed Covid-19 positive cases in Nueva Ecija rose to 52 after five more patients tested positive over the weekend, according to the provincial inter-agency task force.
The NE–IATF reported on Sunday that a 75-year-old-woman from Aliaga town was discharged from the ELJ Hospital here and placed under strict home quarantine.
She was Patient 52.
On Saturday, two medical frontliners from Bataan and an overseas Filipino worker from the United ArabEmirates were among four new confirmed cases as disclosed by the IATF.
The four were:
Patient 48, a 24-year-old, woman from Barangay Bangad here who served as medical technologist at theBataan General Hospital and Medical Center.
Patient 49, a 25-year-old woman from Mabini Homesite, also of this city who is a doctor at Ospital ng Maynila.
Patient 50, a 30-year-old man of Pulong Buli, Santo Domingo town who is a fireman who worked at the National Capital Region, and;
Patient 51, 34-year-old woman from Manggang Marikit, Guimba, an OFW from UAE who was repatriated on April 24, 2020.
Fr. Arnold Abelardo, spokesperson of the NE–IATF, clarified that all-four were recorded as Nueva Ecija patients only because of their residential address.
They have been infected and are now undergoing treatment outside Nueva Ecija.
The NE–IATF reiterates call to the public to continue observing health protocols despite shift to modified enhanced community quarantine.
Meanwhile, Nueva Ecija has recorded 42 recoveries from Covid-19 as of May 17, the NE–IATF reported.
