– A “timeout weekend” from August 28 to 31 to conduct mass testing of symptomatic individuals amid the coronavirus disease pandemic has been proposed for the province of Negros Occidental and the city of Bacolod.
A Special Task Force will be created to facilitate the mass testing of 10,000 symptomatic patients and their close contacts in the cities of Bacolod, Silay, Talisay, and Bago, and the municipality of Murcia for four days this weekend. “There will be no movement at all. There will be a lockdown for four days, while we test everybody,” Benitez said.
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