AT least 71 personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have tested positive of the novel coronavirus anew, while another 10 personnel have recovered from the disease.
A news statement released by the PNP, through its spokesman Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac, said the number of personnel affected by the Covid-19 have increased after three more cases were confirmed.
“The three confirmed cases were, a 45-year-old male, a 32-year- old male and a 33-year-old male, all assigned in Metro Manila,” Banac said, citing the report of the PNP Health Services (PNPHS).
“Further, PNPHS recorded a total of 59 PNP personnel who are categorized as Probable Persons Under Investigation [Probable PUIs], including 17 Police Commissioned Officers, 50 Police Non-Commissioned Officers and two Non-Uniformed Personnel, while a total 604 personnel were recommended as Suspected Persons Under Investigation [Suspected PUIs] including 132 Police Commissioned Officers, 442 Police Non-Commissioned Officers, and 30 Non-Uniformed Personnel,” the police spokesman said.
He also said that a total of 600 personnel that include 196 Probable PUIs and 404 Suspected PUIs have completed “self/home quarantine.”
In the military, Armed Forces public affairs office chief Capt. Jonathan Zata, said the AFP Medical Center in Quezon City has already confirmed 33 Covid-19 cases, and of this number, 22 are military personnel and six are military dependents.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Navy will send to China today (Tuesday) one of its logistics support vessels, BRP Bacolod City to pick up personal protective equipment (PPE) that the Duterte administration has procured from Beijing.
The vessel will sail for Xiamen in China to pick up 23,385 boxes of PPEs that were stacked in 17 containers at the Zhangzhou Port there.
The Navy said earlier through its public affairs office chief Lt. Commander Maria Christina Roxas that the deployment was in response to the call of National Task Force on Covid-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. “to make use of the services of the Navy to fetch and deliver to the country the remaining sets of PPEs that the Department of Budget and Management procured in China last month.”