PH Youngest COVID-19 Positive Patient To Be Discharged From Hospital Tomorrow

The one-year and nine-month-old baby girl, the lone coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro and the youngest in the country, is reportedly scheduled to be discharged from the hospital Thursday, April 2 or early Friday, Manila Bulletin reports.

This was what her physician told Oriental Mindoro Governor Humerlito A. Dolor, who said that Patient 14, or now more popularly known as “Baby COVID-19”, has been taken off her dependence for intravenous fluids and has been given oral medication.

“The child is playful, has a good appetite, and, for almost a week, had had no fever,” Governor Dolor quoted the physician as saying.

Governer Dolor said pneumonia and other respiratory ailments of the patient have been treated completely while the lab test for her COVID-19 was still being processed at Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Manila.

“We fervently hope that the re-test will be negative,” said Governor Dolor in his regular health bulletin posted in his social media account.

Despite the good news about “Baby COVID-19”, Governor Dolor still urged his constituents to stay indoors, and follow all government quarantine regulations to prevent the spread of the dreaded disease. 

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The child is confined at a private hospital in Calapan City with her grandparents assisting her since her mother has been stranded in Muntinlupa due to the enhanced community quarantine.

The Center for Health Development (CHD) of DOH Mimaropa (Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) said Patient 14 was considered the youngest recorded COVID-19 patient in the whole country with travel history in Muntinlupa before the Luzon-wide lockdown was imposed on March 16.

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Source: MB