Bohol Island News Staff | Posted on Feb. 5, 2020
The first sample taken from the 60-year-old Chinese woman tested positive of the 2019-novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD).
According to Department Health (DOH) Undersecretary Rolando Enrique Domingo, the patient consulted a private hospital in Bohol after experiencing fever and coryza last Jan. 22. The patient was then admitted at the undisclosed medical hospital.
Several samples were taken from the patient on January 23 and 24, 2020.
A sample taken on January 24, 2020 was sent to Australia and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in the Philippines. The two results came back negative.
The results arrived Jan. 29 from Australia and Jan. 30 from RITM.
However, it was on February 3 when the DOH was notified by RITM that the earlier samples taken on January 23, was positive for the 2019-nCOV, making her the third confirmed case of 2019-nCOV ARD in the Philippines, according Domingo.
This patient arrived in Cebu City from Wuhan, China via a flight from Hong Kong last January 20, 2020 and then went directly to Bohol.
Upon her recovery, the patient was discharged allowed to go home to China on January 31, 2020.
(This is a developing story.)
