A male bus passenger from Manila became under investigation after showing symptoms of the coronavirus disease or COVID-19 upon his arrival at Lucena City in Quezon.
The 44-year-old passenger is a Lucena resident and took a bus trip from Jam Liner.
In a report on GMA News, local health authorities said the passenger already had a fever and was coughing during the trip.
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He called his sibling in Lucena City so he could be fetched at the terminal.
The sibling who was waiting at the bus terminal told officials that the passenger on board the bus trip was sick.
City health officials who by then wore personal protective equipment boarded the vehicle to check on the sick passenger as well as his co-passengers.
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They checked the body temperature of all passengers and took down the passengers’ names, addresses and contact numbers.
Lucena health official said the co-passengers of the PUI will now be classified as Persons Under Monitoring (PUM).
