A 5-year-old Chinese boy from China who arrived in Cebu City had tested positive for coronavirus, the Department of Health said. The boy who went from Wuhan, China, where a new strain of coronavirus originated experienced fever, throat irritation, and cough prior to entering the Philippines.
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"The samples from the child tested negative for MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, but tested positive for "non-specific pancoronavirus," Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said. The sample, though, had been sent to the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory in Australia to identify what kind of coronavirus it is," he added.
Coronaviruses are spices of virus belonging to the subfamily in the family of coronaviruses that would start from common cold to more severe diseases.
Currently, the world are all eyes to the mysterious respiratory virus that has killed at least three people and sickened more than hundreds in China. The new strain was traced by health officials originated to a seafood market in the central Chinese City of Wuhan, was primarily passed from animals to humans.
Duque held the briefing following to a reported case in Aklan, where officials quarantined 3 Chinese travelers who were detected as having fever upon their arrival at the Kalibo International Airport.
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