By Malu Cadelina Manar KIDAPAWAN CITY – At least 30 individuals, including two doctors and 21 health personnel in a private hospital here, were placed under strict community quarantine after their reported exposure to an 84-year old male who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Mayor Joseph Evangelista said the doctors and the health personnel of a private hospital here who had direct contact with the COVID-19 patient were told to stay at the Kidapawan City Quarantine Center for 14 days while awaiting results of their Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test. The patient, from Estanol Subdivision, Barangay Sudapin, had a checkup at a hospital on Monday but was referred to a bigger hospital in Davao City. Evangelista said that during the patient’s checkup, he was already having shortness of breath. He added that a few hours after the patient’s checkup, he was immediately transferred to the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) in Davao City where he was placed at the intensive care unit (ICU). An RT-PCR test was conducted and later yielded positive result for COVID-19 Evangelista placed under "focused containment" or "partial lockdown" the street leading to the Estanol Subdivision in Barangay Sudapin where the patient resides. Seven of his immediate family members were told to strictly stay at home. For their food and medicine needs, the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team (BPAT) will be assisting them. On Thursday, Evangelista has called for an urgent meeting with barangay officials of Barangay Amas here after a 20-year old male who volunteered as a frontliner for North Cotabato’s Task Force Sagip Stranded tested positive for COVID-19. He had an exposure to a 38-year old female from Tulunan town in North Cotabato who was among the 197 locally-stranded individuals (LSIs) the provincial government rescued on June 16. The LSI from Tulunan also tested positive for COVID-19. The young frontliner might have been infected with the virus because of his exposure to the LSI, according to Dr. Philbert Malaluan, head of the Incident Command Post (ICP) of the Cotabato provincial government. Both the frontliner and the LSI from Tulunan town were placed under strict monitoring at the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) Hospital in Kabacan, North Cotabato. Both of them are in stable condition and had their second RT-PCR tests taken, according to Malaluan.