Sibugay's 1st COVID-19

positive recovers, to home

The Zamboanga Sibugay Province’s first recorded active case of COVID19 was finally allowed to go home after the patient’s reswab test (RT-PCR) result came out clean or negative for the corona virus disease on July 14, 2020.

Patient ZS 003, a Locally Stranded Individual (LSI) who arrived Imelda town, Zamboanga Sibugay on June 16, 2020 from Cebu City was recorded Positive for COVID19 on June 24, 2020 and remained isolated at the Imelda LIGTAS COVID Center in Barangay Balugo, Imelda, until she was finally allowed home yesterday, July 15, 2020.

ZS003 underwent reswabbing on July 6 and her result was released on July 14, 2020 as negative for the disease.

The local government of Imelda town, headed by its town Mayor Roselyn Silva prepared a simple yet emotional send off ceremony on July 15, for the first COVID19 recovery of the province and witnessed by DOH 9 personnel.

ZS 003 was excitedly met by the husband yesterday, and she is now happily reunited with her family.

Meanwhile, Governor Wilter Yap Palma, in an official letter sent recently to the Chairperson of the National Task Force Against COVID-19 Sec. Delfin N. Lorenzana thru the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Region 9, requesting for a 15-day moratorium in sending back Locally Stranded Individuals (LSIs) to the province, “to contain the transmission of COVID-19”, as all recorded active cases in Zamboanga Sibugay were transmitted from LSIs.

To date, the province records a total of 20 confirmed COVID19 cases of which 2 of the cases are in Manila and Cebu City, respectively, with one recovered case. (RVC/JPA/PIA-Zamboanga Sibugay)