Negros Oriental officials monitoring the health situation in the Province are reviewing footages from closed-circuit television cameras to trace the people who may have come in contact with the couple from Wuhan, China who have tested positive for the novel CoronaVirus.
Dr. Liland Bustamante-Estacion, incident commander of the nCoV ICS, in a press conference Monday said they are reviewing CCTV footages tracing the footsteps of the Chinese couple who were found positive of nCoV.
“We are reviewing the CCTV [videos] minute by minute to see who they came in contact with.”
She said some people are also volunteering to be checked, saying they were, at some point, near the Chinese couple.
“Overall, we have 25 Persons under Monitoring (PUMs) and five Persons under Investigation (PUIs) as of Monday. The PUMs are placed on self-quarantine, and they are advised to refrain from having close contact with other people. The PUIs are now in the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital for isolation and proper medical care. Two of these PUIs are currently having fever. The rest have occasional coughs and sore throat,” read the statement of Bimbo Miraflor of the Provincial Information Office.
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Dr. Estacion said swabs have been taken from these locals, and sent to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in Muntinlupa for testing.
There are over 300 CCTV cameras in Dumaguete City.
The couple from Wuhan arrived in Cebu from Hong Kong on Cebu Pacific Flight 5J 241 in Jan. 21; flew to Dumaguete on CebGo Flight DG 6519 on Jan. 22; and flew to Manila on Philippine Airlines flight PR 2542 on Jan. 25.
The Airlines have been tracing passengers who may have been seated up to four rows in front or four rows behind the couple on each of those three flights.
In Dumaguete, they checked in at a hotel in town, and in a resort in the town of Dauin. (Irma Faith Pal)
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