THE two individuals who earlier tested positive for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) Delta variant in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City now tested negative for the virus based on their latest reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test result, the city official said.
City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of Emergency Operations Center (EOC), on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, said based on the latest RT-PCR test results of the three-year-old boy and the 63-year-old woman, both residents of Barangay Mansilingan, they tested negative for the virus.
She said the close contacts of the patients also turned negative for the virus.
On August 16, Bacolod City received confirmation from the Department of Health that two new Delta variant positives were reported in Barangay Mansilingan by the Philippine Genome Center.
These include the three-year-old boy and the 63-year-old woman. Both of them were already out of isolation.
The three-year-old boy underwent a swab test on July 15 after his father, a security guard, tested positive for coronavirus.
The 63-year-old woman, who underwent a swab test on July 23 and was asymptomatic, was a close contact of a Covid-19 patient in Bacolod. She was fully vaccinated with Sinovac vaccine.
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.
Ang said the two children of the 32-year-old woman and her neighbor were also placed in the city’s isolation facility.
She said aside from Delta variant cases, Bacolod City also recorded five new Covid-19 Theta variant cases, a variant of interest. This brings to 10 the total Theta variant cases in the city.
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.
As of August 17, Bacolod City has a total of 16, 019 Covid-19 cases. Of the number, 14, 916 patients already recovered, 729 active cases with 371 deaths.
For the same period, Bacolod City recorded 22 new cases with 76 new recoveries.