Bullecer, 54, is also country director of Human Life International, a Roman Catholic group which advocates prolife, profamily, and profaith causes, and is monitoring the COVID-19 situation in Cebu City and offers information to help stop the spread of the severe respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.As of 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, the city health department recorded 4,539 COVID-19 cases, 100 deaths and 2,242 recoveries.
Since hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in Cebu City are full, many patients are placed on wait lists while some are refused admission.In a notice to the public earlier this week, Chong Hua Hospital, which claims to have the most number of beds dedicated to COVID-19 patients, said all 180 of them were occupied and that it could not accept any more such cases.
Dr. Daisy Villa, the city health officer, suggested moving patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms to three quarantine facilities to decongest the hospitals.Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, a former military chief of staff, said soldiers and police commandos would be deployed to the city to enforce “an extreme lockdown similar to what we did in Metro Manila to keep people in their homes if they don’t have anything important to do outside.
Checkpoints manned by policemen in combat uniform and village volunteers have been sprouting around the city.Rosa Montecalvo, 48, and a resident of Barangay Sambag I, denounced the presence of policemen and soldiers in her village.“It’s as if we, residents, are prisoners. We are afraid to go out. We look like criminals who are hiding. Is this the solution to the COVID-19 problem? It seems that they are adding salt to injury,” she said in Cebuano.
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