Resolution author Councilor Em Ang said the Department of Health (DOH) Regional Office-Western Visayas has recorded an upward trend of Covid-19 incidents in Bacolod City.
DOH -Western Visayas reported a 131-percent increase in growth rate in the last two weeks of Covid-19 cases in the highly-urbanized city, Ang said.
But she said Bacolod City is still classified under moderate risk based on the line agency’s latest Covid-19 Situational Report.
“Due to the high vaccination rate in Bacolod City, there are less cases of severe and critical symptoms,” she said, adding that most of those who were hospitalized are only exhibiting mild signs of the disease.
Preparing the TTFM’s should the cases of Covid-19 continue to increase would result in decongestion in the city’s hospitals, Ang said.
Ang, who previously heads the defunct City Emergency Operations Center, said that immediate isolation and testing of infected individuals is a must even if they only manifest mild symptoms.
The close contacts should also undergo quarantine to protect vulnerable persons and the rest of the population, she said.
With the decline in cases of Covid-19 during the previous months, the city’s TTMFs in the city’s barangays Alijis and Vista Alegre have been temporarily shut down.
The doctors, nurses and health workers assigned in these TTFMs have been deployed to other facilities or were likewise given different assignments.
“Considering the DOH report of a steady increase in the number of cases, there is a need to prepare our TTMFs in anticipation of another surge or abrupt increase of cases,” Ang said.
Ang said on July 5, 2022, Mayor Alfredo Alberto “Albee” Benitez has issued Executive Order (EO) No. 5 creating the Covid-19 Action Team and designating the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) to spearhead the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) response of the city.