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BACOLOD CITY – A female stowaway from this city was detained at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) a few minutes before she could leave the country last Friday.
Retired Major General Mel Feliciano, chief enforcer for the Visayas Interagency Task Force, said the stowaway was a Filipino Overseas Worker (OFW) bound for the city of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
She was supposed to fly at 1pm on the same day she was intercepted.
The Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center (EOC-TF) Task Force discovered in tracing the contact that the OFW boarded a plane from Bacolod to Manila after it tested positive for COVID-19 on its fifth swab test. held on September 29, the result of which was learned on October 1.
Feliciano immediately coordinated with the National Interagency Task Force (NIATF) against COVID-19 to locate her for eventual extraction.
When found by authorities, the Bacoleña OFW peacefully submitted to the officers, Feliciano said.
“She was consistently negative on all four of her swabs, but tested positive on her fifth. It was a shame that before her long-awaited flight left the country, she was infected. Let this be an example to educate people that a violation of health protocols can cause an infection, “she said.
The woman was placed in a quarantine center in Manila.
/ MUF
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