A third overseas Filipino worker in Hong Kong has tested positive for the potentially deadly COVID-19, the Philippine Consulate General announced yesterday.
In a statement on its official Facebook page, the consulate said they learned about the patient from the Hong Kong Health Department last night.
“She is in isolation and undergoing tests in the hospital,” the consulate said. “The Consulate General just spoke to her and ascertained that she is healthy and presently not exhibiting any symptoms. She asked that her identity be kept secret.”
The Filipina is likely the city’s 103rd case, based on information provided last night by the Hong Kong Health Department. They said she is the domestic worker of the city’s 76th and 91st cases, whose infections were confirmed last month. She is now being treated at Queen Mary Hospital, and her condition has been described as “stable.”
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The consulate added that two other Filipinos in Hong Kong who tested positive for the virus have already recovered, but remain in the hospital for additional tests.
The first is a 32-year-old domestic worker who was treated at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan. Her employer was the city’s 52nd coronavirus patient. The second Filipino case was Hong Kong’s 90th, and her employer was the city’s 85th.
Last month, the Philippines imposed a travel ban on China, where the virus originated, and its special administrative regions of Macau and Hong Kong after a Chinese national died of COVID-19 in the country. After initially prohibiting Filipinos from traveling to those areas, the government ultimately made an exception for overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong and Macau.
While only three people have been infected with COVID-19 inside the Philippines, all of them Chinese nationals, scores of Filipinos overseas have contracted the illness, the majority of them aboard the ill-fated Diamond Princess cruise ship.
