Cebu City (CNN Philippines, May 2) – Four more overseas Filipinos who returned home to Cebu have tested positive for COVID-19, Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia confirmed on Saturday.
The new cases have raised the total number of infections among repatriated Filipinos in the island to 18.
The four were among 220 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who arrived in Cebu on April 27. They were allowed to travel back to the island after receiving negative results from rapid antibody tests in Manila on April 26.
Upon arrival at the Cebu Port, the OFWs were subjected to swab tests and required to spend the 14-day quarantine period at different hotels in Cebu City.
Local authorities assured that there was no interaction between the OFWs and Cebu residents because of the isolation procedures.
Excluding the 18 cases among the repatriated OFWs, Garcia announced 124 new COVID-19 infections in the province on Saturday, raising the total number of cases in Cebu to 968.
The bulk of the additional cases have been recorded in Cebu City, where at least 119 more people have been infected.
Cebu City now has a total of 877 confirmed cases, according to the Department of Health.
CNN Philippines’ Stringer Dale Israel contributed to this report.
