The case was that of a 5-year-old boy in Cebu, who arrived in the country on January 12 with his mother.[16] At that time, the Philippines has no capability to conduct tests to confirm suspected COVID-19 cases.[17][18] The boy tested positive for "non-specific pancoronavirus assay" by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa, and samples from the boy were sent to the Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, for confirmatory testing to determine the specific coronavirus strain.[16] The boy tested negative for COVID-19 but several suspected cases were reported in various parts of the country.[19]