IMUS CITY, Cavite (PIA) – Imus City aims to diminish the rapid transmission of the COVID-19 omicron variant through its Home Mitigation Program initiative which includes the provision of care kits to symptomatic patients undergoing home quarantine.

Imus City Public Information Office chief Jay Saquilayan says, “Once a symptomatic patient tested positive with the antigen test, he/she undergoes Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Test (RT PCR) for confirmation.”

Positive patients with no symptoms are advised to isolate for a required period of time while positive symptomatic patients undergo home quarantine and are provided COVID-19 Care Kits from the city government with priority to members of the vulnerable sector such as the Senior Citizens, Persons with comorbidities and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).

The care kits were distributed to the 97 Barangays in the city which are given to the identified positive symptomatic patients in each barangay.

Members of the Expanded Home Mitigation Team led by the employees of the City of Imus Traffic Management Office (CITMO) and the Imus City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) conduct the house-to-house distribution of the COVID-19 care kits to prevent the patients and the members of the household from leaving their houses to buy the needed medication.

The kits include medicines and supplements such as the Molnupiravir, Sodium Ascorbate+Zinc, oral rehydration solutions, and other medicines (Levofloxacin 750mg tablets; Dexamethasone 500mg capsules) to treat the symptoms caused by COVID-19. (Ruel Francisco, PIA-Cavite with reports from Imus City PIO)