Cagayan de Oro health authorities were about to send home five people who recovered from COVID-19, but decided to keep them in isolation and under observation a little longer after it was confirmed they contracted the highly infectious Delta variant.
Health authorities were about to send home five people who recovered from COVID-19, but decided to keep them in isolation and under observation a little longer after it was confirmed that what they contracted was the highly infectious Delta variant.Cagayan de Oro under the strictest enhanced community quarantine classification
Dr. Teodulfo Jose Retuya Jr., city epidemiologist, said they made the decision to further hold the patients as soon as the Department of Health informed doctors in the city that samples taken from the five showed that they were infected with the Delta variant.The patients were confined in two hospitals in the city, but would be moved to a facility tasked to keep track of Delta variant cases.
He said doctors were trying to determine if the patients were infected abroad or if theirs were cases of local transmissions. “The patients were randomly tested, and the five came out to be positive for the new variant,” Retuya said.
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