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+ SEEMS like the current response is slightly behind the rate of transmission.
“This is alarming because we already have a backlog in the extraction of patients,” said Emergency Operations Center (EOC) deputy chief implementer and Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera.
Cebu City will add four ambulances to the five that have been scrambling in the new spike. Moving patients from their homes to the isolation centers has been slow and “alarming.”
This week, the schools in Barangays Pardo, City Central and Guadalupe will be reopened as barangay isolation centers (BIC). Last month, the schools in Barangays Zapatera, Mabolo and Labangon were also reopened to prevent home quarantine and isolate infected individuals. The EOC eyes more schools to widen preparation. It had coordinated with the Department of Education Cebu City Division, which will come up with a list of schools to be used as BICs.