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📷:Niño Jesus Orbeta
TACLOBAN CITY––The Department of Health in Eastern Visayas (DOH-8) urged people to continue wearing face shields even outside the hospitals.
Dr. Exuperia Sabalberino, officer-in-charge of DOH-7, believed face shields help contain the spread of COVID-19.
“We will continue to use the face shield because the positivity rate in the region is still very high,” she said when asked to comment on President Duterte’s statement to allow people not to use their face shields except when inside the hospitals.
A division chief of the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC), who asked not to be identified, agreed with the President.
“It’s about time. I feel suffocated wearing the face shield,” the official said.
Eastern Visayas has been experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases for the past weeks.
The DOH said the region’s positivity rate or the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that turned out positive stood at 35.35 percent.
The region has 2,193 active cases from a total of 25,466, with 355 deaths.