SIBALOM, Antique – Seventeen more cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were recorded here on Saturday, April 10.
Vice Mayor Zoilo Bernardo Tubianosa said six of these new cases were frontliners and six others were close contacts of these frontliners.
The Provincial Health Office has been conducting mass testing for COVID-19 among government healthcare workers province-wide.
The 17 new COVID-19 infections in Sibalom were the following:
* 62-year-old male, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 49-year-old male, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 59-year-old male, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 20-year-old male, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 29-year-old, female, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 61-year-old female, symptomatic, facility quarantine
* 41-year-old female, asymptomatic, home quarantine
* 34-year-old female, symptomatic, facility quarantine
* 28-year-old female, symptomatic, facility quarantine
* 37-year-old female, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 62-year-old female, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 39-year-old male symptomatic, home quarantine
* 39-year-old male symptomatic, home quarantine
* 38-year-old male, symptomatic, home quarantine
*59-year-old female, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 60-year-old male, symptomatic, home quarantine
* 24-year-old male, symptomatic, home quarantine
“All barangays with COVID-19 cases may impose granular lockdowns for two weeks as per Executive Order No. 2021-15 III issued on March 29, 2021 and 2021-16-III issued on March 30, 2021,” according to Tubianosa.
He urged the people of Siblaom to stay home and go out only for necessary trips, and observe the health safety protocols – wearing of facemask and face shield in public, physical distancing, and proper washing of hands.
On April 6, Mayor Gian Carlo Occeña announced he contracted SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
He underwent reverse transcription – polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test on April 3 after he was exposed to a COVID-19 case on March 23.
His test result was released on April 4.
As of yesterday, Occeña’s condition had stabilized.
He reminded the people of Sibalom not to be complacent “because we never see where the virus is.”/PN
