Philippines ' ACT-CIS Partylist representative , Eric Go Yap , was erroneously declared COVID-19 positive during the pandemic in 2020 .
On March 25 , ACT-CIS Partylist representative Eric Go Yap announced that he had tested positive for the virus , however the RITM confirmed that an encoding error was made and he remains negative of COVID-19 .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Philippines