Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella says his office will investigate how the students got the virus and why they were allowed to leave. COVID19PH
SEAPORT. OFWs arrive at a port in Cebu City. File photo by Gelo Litonjua/Rappler
The first 12 who were positive for the virus arrived on May 16, and were placed in isolation upon reaching Maguindanao, which is part of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao . They were fetched by their local government from the Macabalan port in Cagayan de Oro City.Upon reaching their province, one of the students had flu-like symptoms, prompting Dr Elizabeth Samama, chief of the Maguindanao Provincial Hospital in Datu Hoffer, to order a RT-PCR test.
“Our investigation showed that the passengers arrived at the port of Cebu on May 15, but when their voyage did not push through, they stayed at the Coast Guard facility until they boarded the vessel on the 18th and arrived here on the 19th. “You should be negative for COVID-19, and secondly you have to be given clearance at your arrival port. You aren’t supposed to be given clearance if your home LGU is not alerted first,” he said.
Nery added that the LSIs in Cagayan de Oro are taken into the isolation units before they are sent to their hometowns. “So that they can say that here in our city, they were taken care of before they were sent home,” Nery said.
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