BACOLOD City – Authorities here ordered the lockdown of seven houses in Purok Celita, Barangay Alijis after a resident tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Councilor Cindy Rojas confirmed yesterday the City Health Office (CHO) sealed off a neighborhood to preempt a possible massive spread of the infection.
Alijis village chief Donny Dela Vega said residents of the identified area are not allowed to go out of their houses for the meantime, even to buy provisions.
The local government will supply food and water to every household as well as their other needs, he added.
On Thursday, Dr. Grace Tan, chief of the CHO’s Environment and Sanitation Division, announced that the patient from Purok Celita was 35-year old male (Patient No. 19) and a locally stranded individual (LSI) who arrived from Manila last May 26.
The patient was immediately placed under quarantine in a facility and underwent reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test.
He is asymptomatic and has no pre-existing health conditions.
The patient has been isolated and contact tracing and investigation is now ongoing.
No test was done on the said patient before he left Manila, according to Tan.
Dela Vega, on the other hand, requested the CHO to conduct swab testing to some 41 individuals in his barangay, who had a contact with Patient No. 19./PN
