BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Ten locally stranded individuals (LSIs) who arrived in Negros Occidental prior to the provincial government’s travel moratorium tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
These LSIs were immediately brought to isolation facilities of their respective local government units, according to Dr. Zeaphard Caelian, Provincial Incident Management Team (PIMT).
Records from the PIMT revealed that from Dec. 20 to 21, a total of 632 LSIs arrived in the province.
These repatriates have all negative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test result, said Caelian.
“The rest who arrived during the period were returning overseas Filipinos (RoFs), who were not subjected to swab tests,” Caelian added.
After moratoriums were implemented in 19 local government units in Negros Occidental, provincial administrator Atty. Rayfrando Diaz revealed that they have recorded a drop in the number of swab samples they are processing from the Bredco port and at the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City.
According to Diaz, the number of extracted specimens had not exceeded 500 in the past week.
In previous months, the collected samples being tested for COVID-19 was averaging 1,200 to 1,400 daily./PN
