Health Secretary Francisco Duque III emphasized that even though an individual is just experiencing mild symptoms, it is still important for them to stay at home and isolate. He also advised that, in such an occurrence, it is important to contact the Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams (BHERTs), a community organization tasked in managing all Covid-related healthcare needs.
Health authorities reported towards the weekend that 15 of the cases were close contacts, mostly relatives, of another patient who died from COVID-19 at the Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital. It was a tragic day for the family who now have to go through the ordeal and the many others in the town who are their close contacts and have to be quarantined as part of containment measures.
The regional office of the Department of Health (DOH) is looking into reports of a suspected meningococcemia patient confined in isolation at the Adventist Hospital Palawan (AHP).
