The Department of Health (DOH)- Western Visayas has detailed 27 new coronavirus infection cases in Bacolod City, bringing the entire count to 148. In its most recent bulletin discharged on Saturday, the 27 new Covid-19 patients are all isolated within the city’s isolate facilities.
Based on the City Health Office records, of 27 modern Covid-19 cases, 19 cases are near contacts of Covid-19 Understanding 89, three are locally stranded people (LSIs), three are health care laborers (HCWs) and two are local cases. All of them are as of now within the isolate facilities of the city. As of July 25, Western Visayas features a add up to of 1, 036 affirmed Covid-19 cases. Of this, 424 are active cases, 596 have recouped and 16 deaths.
Last week, five puroks in Bacolod City, where Covid-19 positive patients lived, were too put under lockdown. These are Purok Paghida-et, Barangay 29, with as it were one house was put beneath lockdown; Purok Ocean side, Baragay Tangub, entire purok; Purok Mahimulaton, Barangay Banago 10 houses in Ancient Pala2, Purok Riverside, Barangay Banago, as it were five houses; and Purok Masanag I, Barangay 25, as it were 30 houses.
Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, chairperson of the Bacolod City Inter-Agency Task Force against Covid-19, said that with the modern cases of Covid-19 in Bacolod, there’s a plausibility to level up the isolate status of the city. “But the request to go back in improved community quarantine (ECQ), we have to be think it twice or indeed thrice since it can influence our economy and the day by day needs of our individuals. For now, it’s the methodology of the leader to have a chosen lockdown just like the purok or the barangay. Let’s participate and let’s offer assistance one another to avoid the spread of the infection,” he stated.
In the mean time, a gather of specialists in Bacolod City has offered to President Rodrigo Duterte and the National Inter-Agency Assignment Drive (NIATF) against Covid-19 to put Bacolod beneath upgraded community isolate (ECQ) for at slightest two weeks to assist contain the virus. On their letter dated July 26, 2020 tended to to Duterte and marked by Dr. Ma. Ivy Malata, Philippine Restorative Association-Canlaon Therapeutic Society president, and Dr. Roberto Puerta, Philippine Medical Association-Negros Occidental Restorative Society president, said there has been a quick spike within the Covid-19 cases within the community, with neighborhood transmission coming to its most noteworthy within the past few days.
“We are now in the highest in Western Visayas, and there are hundreds of pending results coming in. some hospitals have declared full Covid-19 capacity, with numerous healthcare workers and frontliners being either admitted or home-quarantined,” they stated.
“We would like to appeal to the NIATF for an ECQ for at least two weeks to help us contain the virus. We are not equipped for a full-blast Covid war. We only have a few hospitals, with limited capacity and equipment. We are just a few steps from being the next epicenter, and we fervently hope that you can help us prevent that from happening. We in the medical community believe that this is the best way by which we can at least halt the spread of local transmission,” they added.
The doctors prescribed the impediment of development of individuals of Bacolod by announcing ECQ for at slightest two weeks. Typically to contain the Covid-19 cases and anticipate its spread to a level of community transmission that’s more troublesome to handle. The specialists moreover highlighted a few focuses that they have asked with the nearby government units to consider, as they proceed to battle the Covid-19 fight such as broad contact following, bound together conventions for all healthcare offices among others.
