Majority of Covid-19 cases in Davao City are asymptomatic or silent carriers.
Dr. Ashley Lopez, acting head of the City Health Office (CHO), said 95 percent of Covid-19 cases in Davao City are asymptomatic.
Asymptomatic individuals do not show any signs or symptoms of the disease on contracting it for the entire duration of the incubation period. This can last for around 14 days. As a result, they end up transmitting the virus to a lot of people.
“That means you may not know that you are actually having Covid. Daghan kaayo ta ug silent carriers and the only way to determine or tracked down ani nila is through testing,” he said.
Lopez said this is the reason why it is important to conduct more swab testing.
“We should have more test and more swabbing. Dili nato undangon ang atong mga initiatives para ato masugpo ang problema sa Covid,” he said.
He also urged Dabawenyos, particularly those traced as F1, F2, and F3 to undergo swab testing. F1 contacts are defined as first-generation contacts of an RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) confirmed Covid-19 positive case while F2 contacts are close contacts of F1 and F3 are close contacts of F2.
“Ang bottom line is we are speaking sa health nimo. Dili ba ka ganahan na negative ka sa Covid-19? Dili tanan negative dautan. Kung mag-negative ka sa Covid-19, maayo na siya. If you want to know if you are negative, the only way is to undergo testing. Maayo pud makabalo ta kung positive ka. Wala ta kabalo nga nakighalubilo ka sa inyong balay, sa imong anak, asawa o parente sa balay, silent carrier diay ka,” Lopez said.
