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+ March 17, 2021 EXACTLY a year ago last Tuesday, we lost control of our freedom to travel. Life has not been the same ever since.
Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella said at that time that he was ordering a quarantine, not a lockdown, and people were merely advised to stay at home. There were no confirmed cases in Cebu City then, just PUIs (patients under investigation) and PUMs (persons under monitoring). In the Central Visayas itself, only one case was reported, that of a Chinese tourist who eventually died.
“We have to be preemptive and precautionary, rather than reactive,” Labella said, explaining what looked then to be unnecessary restrictions.
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+ February 13, 2021 THERE are enough facilities in Cebu City to handle the current spike of coronavirus cases in the city, according to the Department of Health Central
Visayas (DOH 7).
Data shows that out of 130 beds at the Bayanihan Cebu-IEC Field Center only 60 or 46 percent were occupied as of Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.
The facility is located at the International Eucharistic Congress Convention Center along Pope John Paul II Ave.
“IEC is still not fully occupied. While CCQC (Cebu City Quarantine Center) is already open and we lack occupancy,” said DOH 7 Director Jaime Bernadas in a mix of Cebuano and English when asked if he saw the need to open other field centers for Covid-19 patients.
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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.
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File photo February 04, 2021 THE Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) plans to reduce the number of days required for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients inside quarantine facilities.
From the 14-day mandatory stay in isolation centers, the EOC wants to limit the stay to only 10 days, provided the patient continues to have no symptoms of Covid-19 three days prior to his 10th day of confinement.
Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera, EOC deputy chief implementer, said this is seriously being studied by the EOC as it would greatly help in the turnaround of patients in the city’s isolation centers.
Garganera said the patients can continue to serve the remaining four days of quarantine at home.