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Navotas City turns freight containers into isolation rooms
By: Meg Adonis - Reporter / @MegINQPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 04:04 AM August 19,
2020
MANILA, Philippines — With its two quarantine facilities at full capacity, the Navotas
City government has started converting freight containers into isolation units for new
corona virus disease (COVID-19) patients who have either mild symptoms or none at
all.
According to Mayor Toby Tiangco, the Department of Public Works and Highways has
provided 30 freight containers that are being turned into 120 additional air-conditioned
isolation units at the Navotas Centennial Park on C-4 Road.
“After our two isolation facilities reached full capacity, we requested additional units from the national government
… They will also be in charge of construction,” Tiangco said.
Once completed in October, the new quarantine quarters will put at 330 the city’s combined total bed capacity for
asymptomatic and mild COVID-19 patients.
Tiangco clarified that city schools could not be used as makeshift quarantine quarters since there was some
uncertainty over when classes would resume.
Irish Cubillan, city public information office chief, said the city government would shoulder the food of patients,
maintenance and utilities, including the pay of people tasked to manage the facilities.14-day lock down Last month,
Tiangco placed Navotas under a 14-day lockdown after the city health office recorded the highest daily tally of
corona virus cases since Metro Manila transitioned to general community quarantine (GCQ).
“We will just follow the GCQ policies unless we observe that residents are out of control, not following protocols, or
if the number of cases increase. But we are hopeful that this will no longer happen,” he said.
According to Tiangco, the city recorded a lower COVID-19 positivity rate during the localized lockdown in July than
when Metro Manila was under GCQ.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the city health office had recorded 3,810 confirmed coronavirus cases, with 110 fatalities
and 2,600 recoveries.

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