ICYMI: Abellanosa: Cebu City gov’t needs to focus on pandemic
Cebu City South District Representative Rodrigo Bebot Abellanosa.
Leachon is the special adviser to Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr., the chief implementer of the Inter-Agency Task Force for COVID-19, and both were in Cebu on June 12, 2020 to check on the situation in the city.In his Facebook live on June 12, 2020, Leachon, admitted that the city’s healthcare system had been overwhelmed by the number of COVID-related patients. The Department of Health’s response was to increase the bed capacity dedicated to COVID-19.
The first community transmission was recorded in Barangay Luz, which prompted a lockdown of the area on April 2020, as the cases rose to almost 200. Still, the city government was able to purchase 34,000 testing kits for the contact tracing and massive swab testing and 10,000 rapid test kits for Project Balik Buhay.Cebu City also established 19 barangay isolation centers as well as a 100-million worth negative pressure quarantine facility at the North Reclamation Area, the first and only facility like it in the country.
The congressman urged the city officials to combat the pandemic through a focused strategy that would solve the problems surrounding the pandemic and still providing for the needs of the residents.
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