More asymptomatic patients in hospitals prompt DOH-7’s call for more ‘hotel-isolation’ rooms

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/22/2021

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) is pushing for more hotels here to house asymptomatic patients if it means preventing the hospitals from being overwhelmed by patients. DOH-7 on Monday,…

Asymptomatic patients make up 92% of COVID-19 cases in Cebu City 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Even as the critical care utilization rates of hospitals in Metro Cebu gradually increase, health officials here assure that this is not an alarming development.  The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7)…

Lapu readies buffer schools for asymptomatic patients

Immae Lachica 06/23/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Three buffer schools are now being prepared to cater to more COVID-19 asymptomatic patients in the city of Lapu-Lapu, as confirmed by the city legal attorney Lawyer James Allan Sayson. In a phone interview,…

Asymptomatic patients in Brgy Luz say they have not been swabbed

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The asymptomatic patients in Barangay Luz decried the announcement of Cebu City Administrator Floro Casas, Jr., that they have been re-swabbed and are ready for release today, May 7, 2020. Read: 100 patients…

Lapu-Lapu City readies 1,000-bed capacity isolation centers for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients

Norman V. Mendoza 04/29/2020

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – Isolation centers with a combined capacity of 900 to 1,000 beds are being prepared by the city government of Lapu-Lapu for residents who will test positive but remain asymptomatic of COVID-19 during a…

Cebu City breaches 400 in COVID-19 cases; majority asymptomatic

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The total number of confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Cebu City has breached 400 on Saturday, April 25, 2020. The latest addition were 63 patients from the Cebu City Jail recorded…

COVID-19 field center in Cebu to ‘activate’ on April 22

Rosalie Abatayo 04/19/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The first of two coronavirus disease (COVID-19) field centers in Cebu that will house mild and asymptomatic patients of the disease will already begin full operation and accept patients on Wednesday, April 22,…

Dr. Villa to Labella: Don’t isolate Sitio Zapatera’s asymptomatic COVID-19 cases in Barrio Luz school

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/17/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — “Do not isolate the asymptomatic patients of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) of Sitio Zapatera, Barangay Luz at the Barrio Luz National High School.” This is the appeal of Dr. Daisy Villa, Cebu…

Barrio Luz National High School to host asymptomatic COVID-19 patients

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 04/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The number of positive cases in Sitio Zapatera, Barangay (Barrio) Luz has been rapidly increasing in the past days and Cebu City does not yet have the quarantine facilities to house them. In…

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