The Department of Health (DOH) today announced that 45 more people have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in the Philippines to 187.
The new cases include PH183, an 82-year-old woman currently confined at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Muntinlupa City; PH185, a 48-year-old woman confined at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City; and PH170, a 22-year-old man now confined at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine in Muntinlupa.
Meanwhile, the DOH also said that one more patient, case PH25, has successfully recovered from the disease. The patient is a 31-year-old Filipino from Negros Oriental. The man, one of the two returnees from the cruise ship Diamond Princess who tested positive for coronavirus, was confined at the Jose B. Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital in San Fernando City, Pampanga. He will be discharged today.
PH25 is the fourth person to have recovered from COVID-19 in the Philippines.
News of the new cases came just a day after President Rodrigo Duterte announced an “enhanced” community quarantine over the whole of Luzon island last night, which prohibits people from leaving their homes unless absolutely necessary.
To minimize the movement of people, all forms of mass transport have been suspended, which prompted several local governments to provide free transport services to health care workers and other laborers who give essential services during the lockdown.
