A couple in Pavia town, Iloilo province tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
This was confirmed by Mayor Luigi Gorriceta on Wednesday morning, April 8.
Gorriceta said he was saddened by the test results that found two of their residents positive for the disease.
“Our Municipal Health Office (MHO), in coordination with the Provincial Health Office and the barangay corcern, is currently conducting contact tracing for all persons that might have direct contact, as well as the degree of their exposure to the positive patients,” he said.
“Our medical technologists from MHO had already collected specimen to their recorded contact s and I request further that all contact of the patient should be tested,” Gorriceta added.
According to the mayor, the couple (50-year-old husband and 53-year-old wife) residing in a subdivision had close contact with the deceased COVID-19 patient from Mandurriao in Iloilo City.
The patients, who are currently under home quarantine, are asymptomatic.
Gorriceta assured that the LGU is “taking care of all essential services behind the scene.”
“We are together in this fight. I will do my best to protect all of you but please follow all the rules and guidelines which the LGU has issued,” he said.
There are now 15 positive cases of COVID-19 in the province.IMT
