DISINFECTION. Emergency response team members disinfect a store along V. Rama Avenue in Barangay Guadalupe, a village locked down by village officials due to Covid-19 rise. Less than a kilometer away, Travelbee Management Corporation offered two of its inns as temporary treatment and monitoring facilities to help relieve and expand critical care capacity in Cebu City that has now 955 active cases. (Photo courtesy of Guadalupe Emergency Response)
CEBU CITY – A hotel operator offered two of its inns in this city as temporary facilities for mild symptomatic patients following a spike in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases which resulted in a lockdown of Barangay Guadalupe.
The city's Emergency Operations Center (EOC), in a statement on Tuesday, said Travelbee offers two of its hotels to accommodate mild symptomatic residents from Cebu City as a “temporary treatment and monitoring facilities to help relieve and expand critical care capacity”.
“The Travelbee Management Corporation offers their inns at Don Gil Garcia Street, Capitol and J. Llorente Streets, Fuente Circle, across the HP Diagnostics Center, both with a capacity of 54 beds,” it said.
Travelbee inns are located less than a kilometer from Barangay Guadalupe which was locked down by village officials last Sunday because of an increasing number of Covid-19 cases.
The village’s own Covid-19 tracker said 48 of their residents from 25 sub-villages are now treated in a patient care facility.
Lawyer Rey Gealon, head of the City Legal Office and Mayor Edgardo Labella’s spokesperson, in a video message posted on social media urged city residents to respect the health safety protocols in place to address the Covid-19.
“We have recorded more than 2,000 quarantine violators,” he said in Cebuano.
Gealon reminded city residents that Covid-19 “is still very much around,” urging them to avoid crowding in events and other activities that may cause transmission.
As of Monday night, this city has 955 active coronavirus cases after it reported 70 new cases and 19 recoveries.
At least 86 percent or 10,275 out of a total of 11,931 Covid-19 cases here have already recovered from the coronavirus disease.
The 955 cases in Cebu City represents 37 percent of the 2,594 active cases recorded in the entire Central Visayas region.
The cities of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu have 235 and 119 active cases, respectively.
Negros Oriental leads other provinces in Central Visayas in terms of the number of active Covid-19 cases as it logged 723 on Monday because of four new infections, followed by Cebu province with 537 due to 11 new cases. Bohol has 22 and Siquijor has three, without new cases reported.
There were nine new recoveries on Monday in Cebu province while two were recorded in Negros Oriental. Bohol and Siquijor have no new recoveries. (PNA)
