SAN JOSE, Antique – The laboratory results of three probable coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in this province turned out negative, according to the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) here.
IPHO-Antique information officer Irene
Dulduco said recently that they have received the laboratory results of the
three probable cases on April 13. Their specimens were submitted to the Western
Visayas Medical Center in Mandurriao, Iloilo City over the weekend.
“There are six more results that are still pending,” she added.
The three negative results bring to 33 the total probable cases in this province who tested negative for the virus since February of this year.
As of April 13, there are 119 suspect cases and 18 remaining probable cases in Antique.
Of the 18 probable cases, eight are currently under treatment at the Angel Salazar Memorial General Hospital (ASMGH) in this capital town, while 10 others are under home quarantine.
As of this writing, Antique has two confirmed cases of COVID-19. One is from Barangay Semirara of Caluya town, whose laboratory results were released by the WVMC on April 7, while the other is from Pandan town, whose results came out on April 9.
Meanwhile, pediatric patients being brought for admission to the ASMGH are now being referred to the Ramon Maza Sr. Memorial Hospital in Sibalom town after some ASMGH doctors and nurses in the pediatric ward were labeled suspect cases of the virus.
“Doctors and nurses assigned in the pediatric ward of the ASMGH became COVID-19 suspects because of their exposure to a pediatric patient, whose mother had an exposure with the virus-confirmed case in Pandan,” she said.(With a report from PNA/PN)
