BACOLOD City – Health authorities here ordered the lockdown of a neighborhood in Barangay Punta Taytay after a locally stranded individual (LSI) who recently returned tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Punta Taytay village chief Leah Palma said the City Health Office (CHO) recommended sealing off the several houses to preempt a possible massive spread of the infection.
At least 20 families were affected by lockdown, she added.
According to CHO’s data, the LSI is a 24-year-old pregnant woman who got stranded in Angono, Rizal in Luzon.
The now Western Visayas Patient No. 250 returned to this city on June 19 and was immediately subjected to a reverse transcription-polymerase chain transcription (RT-PCR) test.
The result showing her positive for COVID-19 was release on June 28.
Palma said the LSI was initially quarantined at an isolation facility in this city but was sent home pending the release of her test result.
The patient is now isolated at a quarantine center together with several family members.
The CHO rolled out contact tracing in the said barangay after learning that the patient went to a videoke bar./PN
