Two More Baguio COVID19 Positive Patients Come Out

March 30, 2020 JUST IN

BAGUIO CITY (March 29, 2020) – Two more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients came out on Sunday, a day after a health worker admitted in public he has contracted the disease.
Responding to Mayor Benjamin Magalong’s call to save lives by revealing their identities to facilitate contact tracing, spouses Enrique and Jaysay Bactad, both 67, from Las Piñas City agreed to disclose their circumstances a day after Joel Junsay, from the City Health Services Office, the city’s first case of local transmission, shed his privacy to be of help in containing COVID19.
The couple was both experiencing low grade fever when they went up to Baguio last March 15 for Enrique’s regular check-up with his doctor here.  Jaysay started to have fever since March 11, authorities said.
They stayed in Jaysay’s maternal home at Tacay Road in Central Guisad on March 15 and 16 and had a check-up at Notre Dame de Chartres Hospital March 17 where Jaysay had a swab test.
She was later confined at the St Louis University Hospital of the Sacred Heart while Enrique had quarantine at home.  He was confined at Notre Dame March 25 due to fever.
All their known contacts in Las Piñas and in Baguio had been put on quarantine protocol.
The couple admitted that in their travel to Baguio City, they stopped at Petron in NLEX and briefly at a relative’s place in Nancayasan, Urdaneta City.
Their results were received Saturday.
Mayor Magalong appreciated the “very positive feedback and response from the public when we disclosed the name of Joel Junsay” expressing hope that more patients will follow.
As of now, all the three patients are on the road to recovery, according to the mayor.
Baguio has 11 confirmed COVID19 patients.
Artemio Dumlao-ABN