By Emme Rose Santiagudo
Six more repatriates were infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Region 6, bringing the total cases in Western Visayas to 246, according to the Department of Health-Center for Health Development Western Visayas (DOH-CHD 6).
Dr. Sophia Pulmones, head of the Local Health Support Division of DOH-CHD 6, reported on Friday that the new cases included five locally stranded individuals (LSIs) and one repatriated Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW).
“Based on Case Bulletin No. 92, we recorded six new additional cases of Covid-19 involving a 27-year-old female LSI from Bacolod City (WV Patient No. 241); a 51-year-old male OFW repatriate from Bacolod City (WV Patient No. 242); a 29-year-old male LSI from Buenavista Guimaras (WV Patient No. 243); a 21-year-old male LSI from Barotac Viejo (WV Patient No. 244); a 32-year-old female LSI from Bacolod City (WV Patient No. 245); a 40-year-old female LSI from Bacolod City (WV Patient No. 246),” Pulmones reported in a virtual press briefing.
According to Pulmones, three of the new COVID-19 positive LSIs came from Manila while the two other LSIs were from Cebu.
“Currently, they are staying in a quarantine facility,” she said.
Repatriates infected with COVID-19 in Western Visayas now totalled 163, more than half of the 246 cases in the region.
Negros Occidental has the highest number of infected repatriates at 74, followed by Iloilo City (31), Bacolod City (24), Iloilo province (19), Guimaras (5), Aklan and Antique (4 each) and Capiz (2).
The 246 cases in Region 6 included 112 active cases, 123 recoveries, and 11 deaths.
Eighty-percent of the total cases (196) are asymptomatic while 27 cases (11 percent) are severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases and 23 (nine percent) are influenza-like illnesses.