By Felipe V. Celino
ROXAS CITY, Capiz—The Capiz Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported four more persons under Investigation (PUI) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
PUIs are persons who showed signs and symptoms and travelled to infected areas.
In a statement of PHO, one of the PUIs is a 28-year-old man who has a travel history to Qatar and Metro Manila.
The other PUI is a 52-year-old lady from Makati City, while the third patient is a 25-year-old woman from Taguig.
The fourth PUI is a 28-year-old man from Sampaloc, Manila City.
The four PUIs are presently under quarantine in a hospital here, awaiting their test results from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).
Capiz remains free of COVID-19, according to health officials.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health (DOH) reported 2,000 persons under monitoring (PUMs) in Western Visayas.
PUMs are persons who have no signs and symptoms but with travel history to infected areas.
This is based on the data from the DOH’s Western Visayas Center for Health Development in a briefing held recently.
Of the 1,999 PUMs, 597 are from Aklan; 436 in Iloilo; 349 in Negros Occidental; 244 in Antique; 150 in Iloilo City; 103 in Guimaras; 93 in Capiz; and 27 in Bacolod City.
The DOH asked the PUMs to follow the proper quarantine procedures.
The increase of the number of PUMs is due to the new decision tool of the DOH that all persons coming from Manila are considered PUMs despite the absence of symptoms.
