CEBU City’s public and private hospitals are now reporting fewer Covid-19 admissions.
According to the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the occupancy rate of Covid-designated rooms in Cebu City’s 15 public and private hospitals was only 25.4 percent on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Of the 932 Covid-19 beds in all of the city’s hospitals, only 237 are currently occupied.
This is the lowest critical care utilization rate that has been reported since the city experienced another surge in Covid-19 cases in January this year.
The 11 private hospitals in the City reported a 16.4 percent occupancy rate, meaning out of the 545 Covid-19 beds, only 107 are currently occupied.
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Active cases in Cebu City drop below 1,000 mark. (File photo)
+ April 08, 2021 FOR the first time since Jan. 26, 2021, the number of active coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in Cebu City has dropped below 1,000.
Based on records of the City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the city has 937 active cases.
City Councilor Joel Garganera, EOC deputy chief implementer, said coronavirus cases had hit double digits since April 1, which saw 89 additional cases. But that number fell to just 11 new cases on April 4, he said.
The city has averaged 62 new cases since the beginning of the month, he said.
On Jan. 27, the EOC logged 1,051 active cases, but that number tripled to more than 3,000 in the succeeding weeks.
April 03, 2021 THE Department of Health (DOH) 7 noted a drop in Covid-19 critical care utilization rate (CCUR) in private hospitals in Cebu.
But the situation is still severe in Metro Manila.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, DOH 7 spokesperson, said the Cebu private CCUR is at 31.2 percent as of April 1, 2021; this is significantly within the 60 percent “safe level.”
“(Covid-19) cases are getting controlled,” she told SunStar Cebu in a text message on Saturday, April 3.
As of April 1, only 270 of the total allotted Covid beds in private hospitals in Cebu are occupied while a total of 595 beds remain available.
This is even better than the 35.8 percent CCUR recorded on March 26, before the Holy Week, when 310 beds were occupied and 555 beds were available.
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Cities of Cebu, Mandaue continue to inoculate medical frontliners. (File photo)
+ March 14, 2021 A TOTAL of 264 personnel of the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) have been inoculated with the CoronaVac vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) since the hospital began its vaccination program on March 10, 2021.
CCMC Administrator Yvonne Cania said 529 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech Ltd. were allocated for CCMC personnel.
Cania said five personnel experienced slight rashes and slight itchiness, while those with asthma experienced difficulty in breathing. But they quickly recovered, she said.
“Na-resolve ra (The matter was resolved) even without oxygen. Puro ra mga (They were all) mild (reactions),” she said.
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