Taguig to open COVID-19 mega-quarantine facility

The Taguig City government will be opening a mega-quarantine facility for confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients to beef up its health service capability.

TAGUIG MEGA QUARANTINE FACILITY

Mayor Lino Cayetano made the announcement in the “Laging Handa” public briefing Friday (July 17) where he discussed the measures Taguig is implementing to curb the spread of the virus.

“In Taguig, we have five quarantine facilities but we’re working on a mega facility that will be able to house 500 patients. This will be completed in three to four months. This week, we will be able to open its Phase 1,” Cayetano said.

The 500-bed mega quarantine facility is located at the Lakeshore Area in Barangay Lower Bicutan. Another quarantine facility will be opened in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Brgy. Fort Bonifacio.

Cayetano said the city government is hoping that all positive patients at the construction site will recover by next week, saying, “I’ll be happy to report that all of the positive workers in that area will be cleared and will have recovered.”

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COVID-19 IN TAGUIG

Today, there are 2,997 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city after tallying 164 new cases. Barangay Fort Bonifacio has the most cases with 577, followed by Barangay Lower Bicutan with 307.

2,678 recovered from the infection while 39 died. The city has one of the lowest fatality rate not only in NCR but in the whole country.

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About 90 percent of the confirmed COVID-19 cases at the construction site are asymptomatic and with mild symptoms, the mayor said.

The city leads in highest numbers of PCR tests with 30,976 as of writing.

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