Health officials say Mindanao's first Omicron case is an unvaccinated 40-year-old seafarer who traveled from Kenya to Cebu City, and from Misamis Oriental to Iligan City.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – The Department of Health has documented the first known case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in Mindanao and quarantined an entire family in Iligan City as a precautionary measure.
Dr. Jasper Kent Ola, head of the Department of Health’s Regional Epidemiology, Surveillance and Disaster Response Unit in Northern Mindanao, said the man arrived in the country via a Qatar Airways flight to Cebu City where he was placed in isolation and given a COVID-19 test before being allowed to travel to Iligan.
Ola said the seafarer was already asymptomatic when he was certified recovered by health authorities in Cebu where was quarantined in a hotel starting on December 16. “After he recovered, the seafarer underwent another swab test, and then he was tagged as recovered and asymptomatic,” Ola said.
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