Batangas City strengthening response against COVID-19

By Thiago Santos September 4, 2020 The contact tracing team. (Photo from PIA) BATANGAS CITY - The Batangas city government through...

By Thiago Santos
September 4, 2020

The contact tracing team. (Photo from PIA)

BATANGAS CITY - The Batangas city government through the City Health Office (CHO) has intensified its preventive programs and activities related to COVID-19 in response to the ever-increasing number of confirmed cases throughout the city.

The construction of a 40-bed isolation facility at the Batangas City Evacuation Center compound in Brgy. Bolbok in addition to the five temporary health facilities currently in use today for those with asymptomatic and mild symptoms who are COVID-19 positive and suspected patients.





Accommodation at these facilities is free as well as food, medicine and fruit are provided to those in-house here.

The CHO has also appointed doctors and nurses here who are on duty 24 hours a week in addition to the additional nurses and medical technologists hired for faster swab testing and contact tracing.





The Batangas city government and the Philippine Red Cross have an agreement for faster results of RT-PCR testing with an initial amount of P5M.

As a result, Mayor Beverley Rose Dimacuha ordered further strengthening and acceleration of contact tracing where the former two groups of contact tracing teams were added by three groups.

The contact tracing team besides the CHO also includes employees of the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO), Batangas City Police and Information Technology and Services Division (ISTD) where they underwent a seminar workshop by Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong. "Contact tracing czar" of the Philippines.

In this regard, the city government continues to call for compliance with the ordinances enacted in relation to safety and health protocols to prevent COVID-19 such as regular use of face mask, regular hand washing, performing physical distancing, prevention of large gatherings, non-release of ages 21 and under and senior citizens, compliance with liquor ban and so on.