Filipino Worker Tests Negative for nCoV

07 February 2020 – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), through Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Civilian Security and Consular Concerns Brigido J. Dulay, confirms that the first Filipino domestic worker quarantined in Hong Kong has been given a clean bill of health and is now discharged by the Hong Kong Department of Health.

The domestic worker, although healthy and asymptomatic, was put under quarantine in Hong Kong after her employer became the second victim to succumb to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease (2019-nCoV ARD) outside mainland China. She underwent a 14-day quarantine period.

She is now resting in her employer’s home which has been thoroughly sanitized by the Hong Kong Department of Health. END