CEBU CITY, Philippines — Despite the addition of one new confirmed case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Central Visayas, the total number of patients here that await to be cleared from
This developed as samples from six patients who previously tested positive for COVID-19 have returned negative from their repeat tests. This brings the total number of “laboratory negative” persons to 19.
Among those who are now laboratory negative for COVID-19 are Cebu City patients CV-12, a 45 -year-old woman; CV-22, a 64-year-old man; CV-23, a 68-year-old woman; CV-29, a 45-year-old man; and CV-31 who is 57 years old.“The increasing number of cases that have cleared the virus from their system is good news.
Only one of the results showed positive for COVID-19 while 77, including the six repeat tests, were negative.Cebu City, although it has the highest number of COVID-19 patients at 23, also has the highest number of patients that survived the disease with 12 patients tagged as laboratory negative. Mandaue City, on the other hand, now has both of its two COVID-19 patients as laboratory negative. CV-06, the first case in the city, has been discharged last week.
The remaining active COVID-19 cases in Central Visayas as of press time are CV-05, CV-13, CV-15, CV-21, CV-26, and CV-36 of Cebu City; CV-24 and CV-24 from Lapu-Lapu City; and CV-33 from Cebu province. /rcgThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.
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