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Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte on Monday announced that her scheduled medical leave on October 5-8 for Singapore would no longer push through after a person who was supposed to travel with her tested positive for COVID-19.

Mayor Sara during a radio interview said her companion tested positive for COVID-19 after undergoing RT-PCR test yesterday.

“Our trip was canceled because one of our companions tested for COVID-19. It was not me,” she said.

Mayor Sara Duterte did not give further details about the planned leave and its cancellation.

Last April, Sara went on a 5-day trip to Singapore for “personal health management”, which she said was the second of 4 visits there.

She took a medical leave and went to Singapore last Sept. 28-Oct. 5, 2020.

Liloan Cebu Mayor Christina Garcia Frasco, Mayor Sara spokesperson, recently rejected possibility of the local chief executive to run for president under the administration party PDP-Laban.

“Mayor Sara has no intention of becoming a member of PDP or of being its standard-bearer now or in the near future,”, who is Duterte-Carpio’s spokesperson, said in a statement.

The Davao City mayor chairs the regional Hugpong ng Pagbabago political party, and is also a member of the Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod in Davao City. She has ruled out joining national political parties.

PDP-Laban faction under Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi made a statement saying the possibility of Mayor Sara joining or being its guest candidate.

Cusi made the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte withdraw from the vice presidential race and accompanied Senator Christopher “Bong” Go in filing his candidacy for Vice President under the ruling PDP-Laban party.