By Froilan Gallardo
Special Correspondent
HEALTH Secretary Francisco Duque III tasked frontline health workers in Cagayan de Oro and Gingoog cities to intensify their contact-tracing efforts to prevent the spread of the virulent Delta variant of the Covid-19.
Duque gave the instructions when he met with Cagayan de Oro Mayor Oscar Moreno and Gingoog Mayor Erick Cañosa earlier this week to assess how the local governments were implementing the quarantine measures in the two cities.
He told the two mayors that they should assume the possibility that there is already the possibility of community transmission of the Delta variants in their cities.
The two cities of Cagayan de Oro and Gingoog were placed under the strictest Enhanced Community Quarantine last Friday after six cases of the Delta variant were found.
Cagayan de Oro chief epidemiologist Dr. Joselito Retuya said they have already identified and confined the five Delta variant patients in the city isolation units.
“We included their families and second-generation contacts in the isolation,” Retuya said.
Retuya said one patient, a hospital worker, have already tested negative and was about to be discharged when the hold order came out.
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