Over 100 COVID – positive returning overseas Filipinos moved to Manila quarantine facility

MANILA, Philippines — Over 100 COVID-19 positive returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) have been transported to the Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital on Friday.

BOQ Director Roberto Salvador Jr. said that the local government unit of Manila will shoulder the quarantine expenses of the mild and asymptomatic ROFs who were transferred to the facility.

“Pinaunlakan po tayo ng Mayor Isko [Moreno] na tanggapin ang OFWs natin na nagpositive, mild at asymptomatic, dito sa Manila quarantine facility, so si mayor na po ang magshoshoulder ng lahat ng expenses hanggang makauwi sila,” Salvador said in a press briefing.

(Manila Mayor Isko Moreno  accepted the mild and asymptomatic OFWs. The LGU will shoulder the quarantine expenses until they are cleared to go home.)

Salvador said Taguig City Mayor Lino Cayetano also pledged to help with the quarantine of returning Filipinos.

An aerial shot of the completed Manila Field Hospital, which will cater to cases of COVID-19. (Contributed photo)

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III described the Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital as a “first class facility.”

“I would say it’s a world class facility dahil malinis, malamig, kumpleto, maganda ang sistema (because it is clean, complete, and has a good operational system),” he said in the same briefing.

“About 104 of them (returning Filipinos) have arrived and will be accommodated in this first class isolation facility, and on this note ako ay nagpapasalamat sa (I am thanking the) City of Manila,” Duque added.

The Manila COVD-19 Field Hospital in Rizal Park has a capacity of 344-beds.

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