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SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur, Philippines – Five cockfighting fans who went to the six-cock derby in Davao City last March were found to have antibodies to the coronavirus in a rapid test conducted here.
The five are among 85 attendees at the Agusan del Sur province derby who underwent rapid tests administered by the Provincial Health Office.
Dr. Jacqueline Frances F. Momville, provincial health officer, said the rapid test was inconclusive and that they were awaiting the result of confirmatory reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests.
Even then, Momville said they were already profiling people and tracking contacts.
Of the five, two are from the town of Veruela, one from Prosperidad and two from the city of Bayugan, said the governor of Agusan del Sur, Santiago Cane Jr.
But Cane cautioned that the only conclusive result on whether these people had the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) would be from the RT-PCR test.
The governor expected more attendees of the derby to come out and be examined to alleviate the concerns of the people of the province.
/ATM
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