COVID infects Filipina in Singapore

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:21:20 +0000

FLAG of Singapore

By ANALOU DE VERA

The Department of Health (DoH) reported on Sunday that another Filipino in Singapore tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infected overseas Filipinos to 86.

Citing data from the International Health Regulation, Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the new case involved a 41-year-old Filipina.

“Sa ngayon naka-admit s’ya sa isang hospital sa Singapore at binabantayan. She’s in stable condition,” Vergeire said in a television interview.

Last Feb. 23, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported the first Filipino who tested positive for COVID-19 in Singapore.

Of the overall figure of infected Filipinos outside the Philippines, 80 of them were from the M/V Diamond Princess cruise ship, said Vergeire.

Sixty-four of them remain admitted in the different medical facilities in Japan while the 16 others have already recovered and were discharged.

The Health official added that two Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates have contracted the disease, two in Hong Kong, and two in Singapore.

The DoH last Friday assured that the Philippine government “remains at their service and would devotedly extend assistance.”

In a related development, Vergeire said that 10 repatriates from the M/V Diamond Princess cruise ship, who are in quarantine at New Clark City in Capas, Tar
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