TWO more individuals in Bacolod City have been tested positive for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) Delta variant, an official said.
City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF), said they received a confirmation Monday, August 16, from the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) that two more individuals, who are from Barangay Mansilingan, turned positive for the Delta variant.
These include the three-year-old boy and the 63-year-old woman. Both of them were already out of isolation.
Ang said the three-year-old boy underwent swab test on July 15 after his father, a security guard, tested positive for coronavirus.
She said the 63-year-old woman, who underwent swab test in July and was asymptomatic, was a close contact of a Covid-19 patient in Bacolod. She was fully vaccinated with Sinovac vaccine.
She added that the contact tracing is now ongoing and they also ordered localized containment measures or surgical lockdown of the residential area of Barangay Mansilingan, where the two patients and their families reside.
Last week, a 71-year-old male resident of Barangay Banago and a 32-year-old pregnant woman from Barangay Sum-ag also tested positive for the Delta variant.
Aside from Delta variant cases, Bacolod City also recorded five Covid-19 Theta variant cases.
In July, the Department of Health-Western Visayas has sent a total of 166 samples to the PGC where five residents from Bacolod City were tested positive for the Theta variant, a variant of interest, and two others were positive for the Delta variant.
In spite of the Delta and Theta variant cases, Ang said the city's Covid-19 cases continue to slow down and they also contained the spread of the virus.
Ang urged the Bacolodnons to strictly follow the minimum health protocols to prevent the spread of the virus and join in the vaccination program of the City Government.