The lockdown was implemented as Negros Occidental emerged as one of the top five areas with the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
On Friday, Metro Manila still accounted for most of new cases at 2,097, followed by Laguna , Cavite , Batangas and Cebu .
A total of 134,474 patients have already recovered from COVID-19 with the recovery of 510 more patients. The death toll, however, climbed to 3,325 as 91 patients succumbed to the severe respiratory disease.The increase in the number of cases in Negros Occidental comes a month after Bacolod’s medical community sought a two-week lockdown of the province’s capital city to help slow down the spread of the infection.
Leonardia, in an executive order, ordered the establishment of border checkpoints to control the flow of people into the city. Bacolod was finally placed on lockdown starting Friday until Monday while swab tests are done on at least 5,000 city residents. Another 5,000 from other parts of the province will be tested on Sunday.
Vergeire insisted that although the lockdown wasn’t granted, the national government did set up a command system for hospitals in Bacolod and helped establish more temporary treatment and monitoring facilities to ensure hospitals would not be overwhelmed by cases. “The average number of cases here in Bacolod is 30 , while during that time in Cebu it was 350 cases per day, but now it is down to 10 to 15. Here 30, we can easily bring that down with the cooperation of the people,” he said.Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino promised to send more doctors, nurses, and soldiers to Bacolod to help overwhelmed front-line personnel.
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