COTABATO CITY --- Health authorities
in the North Cotabato town of M’lang are monitoring two female Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFWs) who recently returned home for possible infection from
coronavirus disease 2019 (CoVid-19), the acute respiratory ailment that claimed
many lives, mostly in China.
Minerva
Suriaga, disease surveillance officer of M’lang Municipal Health Office, said
one of those placed under monitoring is an OFW from the United Kingdom whose
plane had a stop-over in Singapore.
The
person arrived in M’lang on February 5 with no symptoms of the disease but was
placed under a 14-day quarantine by municipal health workers to ensure the
safety of others.
“She
was cooperative, there was no resistance,” Suriaga said in a local radio
interview Friday (February 14), adding that a health worker regularly visits
the OFW in her isolated quarters.
Suriaga
also said that another OFW arrived home from Bahrain but her plane had a
stop-over in Hong Kong.
Both
persons are listed as a “Person Under Monitoring (PUM)” and have so far shown
no symptoms that they are infected with the virus. (EDWIN FERNANDEZ, PNA - COTABATO,
MINDANAO EXPOSE')
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