Police tracing co-passengers of 2 Chinese
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:53:28 +0000
The Philippine National Police has been given 48 hours starting yesterday morning to locate the more than 250 airline passengers who were on board the two flights with the two foreign tourists who earlier tested positive for novel coronavirus.
Police Major Gen. Jose Napoleon Coronel, director of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said they have been ordered to determine the health condition of all the passengers, particularly those who made direct contact with the two Chinese.
The couple arrived in the country last Jan. 21. Both of them were tested positive for nCoV, and one of them died.
“We will also be getting assistance from the Department of Health in physically locating and confronting the passengers and asking them to undergo medical examination,” said Coronel.