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All 82 persons who had contact with nCoV-infected Chinese couple traced —gov
Governor Roel Degamo of Negros Oriental announced that contact tracing for all 82 individuals who had contact with a Chinese couple, later confirmed to have the novel coronavirus, has been completed.
Of the 82 individuals traced, eight were identified as persons under investigation (PUI).
Four of these PUIs have already tested negative for the virus in their initial tests.
The Chinese couple had arrived in the Philippines from Wuhan, China via Hong Kong on January 21, 2020.
While the female patient recovered from her symptoms, the male patient, who was admitted with pneumonia on January 25, 2020, died on February 2, 2020, marking the first fatality of the virus outside China.
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