(UPDATE) Santa Praxedes town in Cagayan recorded its first COVID-19 case after avoiding an infection for a year.

The town's health unit said in its Facebook page that an overseas Filipino worker who arrived from Saudi Arabia tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, after undergoing a swab test on Saturday, March 27.

The female migrant worker reportedly tested negative for the virus in Manila so she was allowed to go home to Santa Praxedes. According to the rural health unit, she was exposed to the COVID-19 infected van driver.

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She also had co-passengers in the van, but they went home to the towns of Abulug and Claveria.

The Santa Praxedes local government said no other resident in the town was exposed to the OFW since she was immediately sent to an isolation unit.

She is asymptomatic, the rural health unit said, and has been transferred to the DOH Community Isolation Unit in Tuguegarao City.

Santa Praxedes officials said they would be implementing strict quarantine protocols in the following days to avoid further COVID-19 transmission. — Report from Harris Julio

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