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BENITEZ SAYS | Capitol eyes new Covid protocol



*Capitol photo

Bacolod infectious disease doctors met with Negros Occidental officials to discuss probable revisions on local COVID-19 protocols guided by the current Department of Health criteria, former Rep. Alfredo Benitez said yesterday.

The doctors said a second COVID-19 test is not necessary if a person in quarantine is 14 days asymptomatic, Benitez, economic adviser to Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson, said.

They said a COVID positive patient that has been asymptomatic for 14 days can be released without a second test, he added.

It was strongly recommended by the doctors and this will be presented in a meeting of Negros Occidental mayors today, Benitez said.


Once the mayors agree, it will be implemented, he added.

Benitez said he, Lacson and some mayors held a zoom meeting with the doctors because they were concerned about the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and quarantine centers might be overcrowded.

“We were looking for ways on how to have a faster turnover and that is one way,” Benitez said.

COVID-19 patients are sent to hospitals when they have severe to critical symptoms, he said.

Those with mild and moderate symptoms ,that are about 90 percent of the COVID-19 patients, are brought to provincial government healing centers, Benitez said.*

Source: 
The Visayan Daily Star

@senso for A BETTER BACOLOD

Ang isa sa akon mga handom para sa Bacolod.

Ako ang kapitan sg sini nga barko. Indi ini magkadto sa wala ukon sa tuo, kundi derecho sa direksyon sang pagbag-o sang gobyerno para sa kaayuhan sang Bacolodnon.