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DOH director f orlEpidemi-
olory Bureau Ferchito Aveljno
said three of the persons had
been discharged from hospital
after they tumed out negative
By SHEiLA CRISOSTOMO
for the virus.
and ALEXIS ROt{ERO "Hopefully, in the coming
days, the oihers will be dis-
charged also," Avelino said.
Eight persons are being One of the three perso4s
monitored for the novel under investigation or PUI is
coronavirus (2019-nCoV) the five-year-old Chinese boy
in the Philippines - down in Cebu City who turned out.
from 11 last weekend, the negative for coronavirus in the
Department of Health . confirmatorv tests condueted
in a laborat6ry in Melboulne,
(DOH) said yesterday'
Australia.
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Avelind said the two othbrs
were released from hosPital iso- q1)
lation after they tested negative
for coronavirus as examined bY
the Research Institute for TroPi-
ca1 Medicine (RITM).
ln an earlier briefing at Ma-
lacafiang, DOH Secretary Fran-
cisco Duque III said two of the
remaining PUIs are in Metro
Manila - a 78-year-old man
l$eing observed at a hosPital in
'Muntinlupa Ciry
and a4Eyear-
old 4a4 in PasaY CitY. One
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ases of the new virus. Duque you .start propagating it " hg came to Manila last week also are no admitted patierits .clas- The quarantine covers all paredness plan to combat
aid the cases refer to peoirle 6aid jn an i;teivi;w wTth'ClVlV tested neg_ative for the Wuhan- sified as PUI for ioronavirus." "newly hired and returning outbreak.
rho exhibited influenlalike Philippines. oriSinated'disease, as did the Earlier cleared by Duque, employees"_ from countries Knowing what ro_le-ei
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