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LEGAZPI CITY –– Another nurse from a private hospital in Albay tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The patient is the second health worker in the province with the disease.
Antonio Ludovice, head of the Provincial Health Office, said the 21-year-old patient could have contracted the virus from the 28-year-old nurse who also tested positive for COVID-19.
He said the patient was asymptomatic and was now quarantined in the private hospital.
At least 10 people had a throat sample at the hospital on Monday, after confirming the positive case, Ludovice said.
Ernie Vera, director of the Department of Health in Bicol, said in a press release on Tuesday that the first nurse in the city of Daraga has already tested negative for COVID-19.
She was exposed to the 74-year-old COVID-19 patient who died last Sunday.
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