Maaaring una, ito ay false positive o ‘yung una nyang pagkakasakit, ‘yun ang false positive,” Vergeire said in an interview with ABS-CBN’s Teleradyo. First, it could be a false positive test result, or his first infection was false positive.) “Pangalawa, maaaring may contamination sa (Second, there could be contamination in the) laboratory that’s why this false positive happened,” she added. Año first tested positive for COVID-19 on March 31 and eventually recovered and got a negative test result on April 13. However, he announced he got tested for the virus on August 14 and received a positive result the following day.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 18, 2020 02:15 UTC