CEBU CITY—-The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has increased the beds allocated for COVID-19 in hospitals and reactivated the isolation centers as cases continued to rise.
In a virtual press conference Monday afternoon, DOH-7 Director Jaime Bernadas said they needed to prepare the facilities for an overflow of cases in the different hospitals.
He said the occupancy rate, however, remained manageable.
“We have not reached the critical levels yet. Our health system is still not overwhelmed, and we are still responding adequately even with the rising number of cases,” Bernadas said.
He stressed that there are still no cases of the highly contagious Delta va…
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