PUERTO PRINCESA CITY鈥擜nother healthcare worker at the Ospital ng Palawan (ONP) tested positive for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the third confirmed case at the province鈥檚 main virus response facility.
Dr. Dean Palanca, city incident commander, in an online briefing Monday morning, said that the new case is a female nurse who has no severe symptoms. Her result came out Sunday night from the ONP鈥檚 laboratory center.
鈥淸The patient] is a female medical personnel, a nurse who got infected with COVID-19. She鈥檚 already a confirmed case based on official result [of her confirmatory test],鈥� Dr. Palanca said.
Palanca stressed that the patient was already transferred to their isolation facility where she will be monitored and treated.
The Palawan province recorded a total of 17 confirmed COVID-19 patients, 15 of which were active cases, one recovered patient, and one casualty, as of Monday noon (June 22).