CITY OF CALAPAN — A mayor of a town in Oriental Mindoro tested positive for COVID-19 days after he got his first dose of a vaccine.
Naujan Mayor Mark Marcos, in a social media post Friday, said he first had an antigen test Tuesday, May 25, and when he tested positive for the virus, he underwent a Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test on the same day.
The result came out Thursday, May 27, confirming his infection.
“But only my office (at the municipal hall) is on lockdown,” he said in a phone interview Friday morning.
He decided to have a swab test even after he was vaccinated against COVID-19 on May 18 because of a persistent nose congestion. “Be…
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