LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Four Mayon Volcano evacuees have tested positive for Covid-19.
The Albay Provincial Health Office (PHO) said the latest to catch Covid was an evacuee from Malilipot, this province, on Monday, June 26.
Jan Edmund Bailon, Albay Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit focal person, said that the patient is a 51-year-old woman from Barangay San Roque staying at the evacuation center at the San Jose National High School.
Bailon said that the patient was tested after she showed Covid symptoms.
"Lahat kasi ng may sipon sa mga evacuation centers ay tini-test namin. ‘Yung pasyente ay may nararamdaman at tinest namin ng antigen nung June 24. Nag-positive siya, so tinest uli for RT-PCR. Lumabas kanina ‘yung result, positive siya (We test all persons who have colds. The patient was unwell and she had an antigen test on June 24. She tested positive and she had a confirmatory RT-PCR test. She tested positive)," Bailon said.
Bailon said the 28 close contacts of the patient have been isolated.
Last week, three evacuees at Gabawan Elementary School in Daraga, Albay also tested positive for Covid.
Bailon said that the first case was an 81-year-old woman from Barangay Matnog in Daraga.
"Dinala siya sa Bicol Regional Hospital and Medical Center kasi ang akala inaatake ng asthma. ‘Yun pala may Covid-19 na (She was taken to the Bicol Regional Hospital and Medical for asthma. It turned out that she had Covid)," he said.
The second patient was a 12-year-old male and the third was a nine-month-old female. Both patients were close contact of the first patient.
Bailon said that both Covid patients have been placed in an isolation area.