Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 22) – A Navotas City mother who earlier contracted COVID-19 was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday after doctors declared her cured of the lethal virus.
Judy Ann Sarabia, 25, is the sixth person from the city to recover from COVID-19. Her newborn twins also tested negative.
Sarabia was symptomatic when she gave birth to her twins last April 4 at Navotas City Hospital. She was confirmed to have contracted the virus on April 8 and was confined at the hospital for two weeks.
Navotas City has so far recorded 25 confirmed cases and six deaths. Meanwhile, nine were admitted at hospitals and four are under home quarantine.
Meanwhile, Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella also announced that the newborn baby who tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, is now negative from the virus after subsequent testing.
The baby’s mother was symptomatic but tested negative, he added.
Labella said the city health center will continue to monitor the condition of the mother and her child.
The United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that mother-to-child transmission of coronavirus is unlikely.
