In a statement released on Sept. 15, the religious congregation said the infections were confirmed after the nuns were tested on Sept. 10.
The congregation said that, since Sept. 14, the entire convent located in Quezon City “has been on lockdown” and is “fully cooperating” with health officials.
Another religious congregation of nuns, the Holy Spirit Sisters, also reported 22 COVID cases and one death. In one of its convents, which is also located in the national capital, 13 nuns and nine staff members tested positive for COVID; the congregation said that one of the nuns has since died of the disease.
A statement by the city’s Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit said it has started investigating how the nuns were infected.
The nuns were still waiting to be vaccinated, according to health officials, although all the staff members were fully vaccinated.
The sisters said the outbreak may have been caused by an asymptomatic visitor to one of its elderly sisters.
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