COTABATO CITY — Officials launched Wednesday the city’s 40-bed COVID-19 isolation facility whose operation the city mayor’s office and the Department of Health-12 shall jointly oversee. Aristides Tan, regional director of DOH-12, told reporters the facility was built according to specifications of the health department. The isolation facility is not too distant from the Cotabato Regional Medical Center, which also has a confinement area for COVID-19 patients. In a message during the symbolic launching of the facility, Guiani-Sayadi urged city residents to take more serious precautions to avoid getting infected with coronavirus. There are now cases of coronavirus infections in nearby towns in Maguindanao that the provincial health office discovered in recent weeks.

Source: Philippine Star June 04, 2020 07:59 UTC