By Emme Rose Santiagudo
The town of Anilao in Iloilo province recorded the latest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case in Western Visayas on Monday, bringing the total cases to 115.
In a bulletin issued on Monday, the Department of Health-Center for Health Development Western Visayas (DOH-CHD 6) said the new COVID -19 case is a 39-year-old male from Anilao (WV Patient No. 115).
Dr. Jessie Glenn Alonsabe, DOH-CHD 6 regional epidemiologist, said the patient is a local strandee who arrived in Iloilo on May 27.
Alonsabe said the patient arrived in Iloilo last March after travelling to Spain. He went back to Manila to process his papers but got stranded due to the lockdown imposed by the national authorities.
“Nastranded siya didto sa Manila kay naglockdown so wala na siya kapuli. Nakapuli lang siya sang May 27 when we already allowed flights to cater returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and locally stranded individuals (LSIs),” he said in an online press briefing on Tuesday.
According to Alonsabe, the patient is currently under facility quarantine in Anilao.
Meanwhile, three more patients in the region have recovered from COVID -19.
The three recoveries include a 32-year-old male from Pandan Antique (WV Patient No. 50); 32-year-old female from Pandan, Antique (WV Patient No. 52); and 32-year-old male from Roxas City, Capiz (WV Patient No. 105).
As of Tuesday, the total recoveries in the region are 84 with 10 deaths and 21 active cases.
Out of the 115 confirmed cases, 72 (63 percent) are asymptomatic contacts, 16 (14 percent) have influenza-like illnesses (ILI), and 27 (23 percent) are considered severe acute respiratory infection (SARI).
