ILOILO – The Contact Tracing Task Force of Igbaras town has identified and located all the 200 contacts of the 55-year-old male municipal councilor who tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Specimens were extracted from them for testing, said Mayor Jaime Esmeralda.
The councilor stayed in Igbaras for two and a half months but went once to Iloilo City on May 1.
Due to the town’s COVID-19 case, transactions in the local government have been paralyzed since June 2.
Esmeralda and “almost all” of the local government unit’s personnel are on quarantine.
“We will resume work when we are already assured of our safety and the absence of local transmission,” he said.
Igbaras, 40 kilometers west of Iloilo City, is a third-class municipality with a population of over 32,000 people (as of2015 census) spread in 46 barangays.
COVID-19 is the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan City, China in December 2019.
The disease can spread from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth which are spread when a person with COVID-19 coughs or exhales.
These droplets also land on objects and surfaces around the person. Other people then catch COVID-19 by touching these objects or surfaces, then touching their eyes, nose or mouth. (PNA)
