THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) chief was given the clear from COVID-19 as his most recent RT-PCR test yielded negative results of the deadly disease from Wuhan, China.
The negative result came out just five days after DOLE announced he contracted the virus.
“Kahapon, na-swab ako. At ang resulta, negative na po ako,” the 77-year old Silvestre Bello III said in an early morning radio interview on Sunday.
Despite positive results, Bello was “asymptomatic” and just went under self-quarantine in his hometown in Isabela province.
Interestingly, Bello found himself infected even after he had completed the required two doses of COVID-19 vaccines in May this year.
Aside from Bello, other Cabinet Secretaries who were infected by COVID-19 include Presidential spokesman Harry Roque, Department of the Interior and Local Government Sec. Eduardo Año, Department of Trade and Industry chief, Sec. Ramon Lopez, Department of National Defense Sec. Delfin Lorenzana, Department of Public Works and Highways chief Sec. Mark Villar, Department of Education Sec. Leonor Briones, former Budget Secretary Wendell Avisado and Presidential Communications Operations Office head Martin Andanar.