A 36-year-old man in Tacloban City, Leyte and a Brazilian girl in Palawan have been tested for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) while a boy who had shown symptoms of the disease yielded negative results.

The Department of Health (DoH) is monitoring a man who worked in Wuhan, China and who arrived in the country last January 17 manifesting symptoms of a respiratory infection.