Four additional Bacolod residents hit by the Delta variant and their close contacts were retested and found negative for COVID-19 on Sunday, August 29, Dr. Chris Sorongon, Emergency Operations Center deputy for medical data and analysis, said.
While 20 members of a family who live in the same compound at Barangay Singcang Airport who tested positive for COVID-19 were extracted Saturday night and brought to quarantine facilities in Bacolod City, he said.
There is one asymptomatic family member whose COVID-19 cycle threshold is 14, which means his viral load is high that is qualified for genome sequencing as a possible Delta variant, he said.
“Our suspicion is that person was the cause of the spread of the virus in that compound,” he said.
The COVID-19 was detected when a 24-week pregnant family member was tested for the virus, he said.
She started feeling body malaise, had lost her sense of taste and smell, was coughing, and had fever and diarrhea, he said.
Her 19 close contacts in the compound also tested positive for COVID-19, he said.
Meanwhile, Sorongon said the four female Bacolod residents reported by the Philippine Genome Center on Saturday to have been hit by the Delta variant were a 31-year-old from Vista Alegre, a 25-year-old from Taculing, 78-year-old from Sincang-Airport and a 55-year-old from Villamonte.
Their nine close contacts also tested negative, he said.
Their houses were locked down starting Saturday until the negative results were released, he said.*