QC Mayor Belmonte tests positive for COVID-19 a second time

Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Monday revealed that she has contracted the coronavirus disease for the second time.

"Eight months after my first bout with COVID-19, I am very sad to report that I have once again tested positive for the virus," she said in a statement on Facebook.

The mayor first tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, a causative agent of COVID-19, in July 2020. 

Belmonte said she is only feeling mild symptoms and is quarantined in a facility in the city.

"Needless to say, I will abide by all the recommended protocols and actions prescribed by the DOH, IATF, and our own City Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit (CESU). Our CESU is likewise hard at work doing full contact-tracing procedures on individuals that I may have had close contact with," she also said. — Consuelo Marquez/BM, GMA News