COVID-19 Patient in Baguio City Discloses Identity

Today, August 11, 2020, a COVID-19 patient in Baguio City has disclosed her identity through a post released by the Public Information Office (PIO) – City of Baguio Facebook Page.

The patient willingly disclosed her identity to help hasten the contact tracing efforts of the city government under the leadership of Mayor Benjamin Magalong.

COVID-19 Patient Identity

The COVID-19 patient’s name is Gevelyn P. Galapon who works as a nurse. She is presently admitted to a health facility and on her way to recovery.

Galapon added that she was asymptomatic even when she underwent a mandatory swab on August 5, 2020 and the results were released last August 8, 2020.

Furthermore, she is calling individuals whom she has been in contact with earlier than and on August 5, 2020, whether at the workplace, routes to and from her home in Camp 8 or along with stores where she bought daily necessities.

In Galapon’s statement, she added that her family members who were swabbed tested negative. Furthermore, she urged acquaintances to isolate and have themselves checked at the nearest health facility if ever they develop flu-like COVID-19 symptoms.

Galapon also disclosed that she was the carer of their hospital’s first COVID-19 patient.

Furthermore, she is encouraging each person including health workers and frontliners to be extra careful in performing their daily duties.

Here’s the full statement:

“As a nurse, I have seen and tended to COVID-19 patients since the start of the global pandemic. In fact, I was the carer of our hospital’s first positive patient and others who came next. I have witnessed their pain and sufferings, and have been with them during days and nights of emotional and physical isolation in their quarters.

But my own spirit has been lifted with every recovery and eventually, departure from the health facility. With our health facility chief and fellow staff, we rejoiced through dancing our thanks to heaven.

With me now in this predicament, in isolation, I feed myself with faith in God’s kindness that He pulls me through. And I thank family, friends, Baguio citizens and all those who pray with me for recovery.

I am Gevelyn P. Galapon, a healthworker and now a COVID-19 patient myself and I willingly disclose my identity to help hasten the contact tracing efforts of the city government under the leadership of Mayor Benjamin Magalong.

I am asymptomatic even when I underwent a mandatory swab on Aug. 5 with the results out on Aug. 8.

I am presently admitted in a health facility and on the way to recovery.

I call on individuals whom I have been in contact with earlier than and on Aug. 5,
whether at the workplace, routes to and from my home (in Camp 8 ) or along stores where I bought daily necessities.

Though members of my family were swabbed with negative results, acquaintances are urged to isolate and have themselves checked at the nearest health facility if ever they develop flu-like Covid-19 symptoms.

I also urge each person, healthworkers and frontliners included, to be more careful and extra cautious in performing daily duties as we would never want covid-19 to spread. NOT to our children, NOT to the elderly, NOT to members of our family and NOT in our communities.”

Source: PIO – City of Baguio