MANILA, Philippines — Another employee of the House of Representatives has been tested positive for the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), House Secretary-General Jose Luis Montales said Tuesday. Montales said that the employee was also from the House’s Printing Service—the same office where the House employee who died from the disease last Sunday worked. ADVERTISEMENT“We were advised that another employee from our Printing Service tested positive for COVID-19. The employee was initially diagnosed to have dengue before undergoing tests for COVID-19. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus that first emerged in China’s city of Wuhan in Hubei province in late 2019.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 17, 2020 06:00 UTC