SEVEN health facilities in Central Luzon have applied to be coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) testing centers. The applicants are Jose B. Lingad Memorial General Hospital (JBLMGH); The Medical City Clark; Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center, also known as Ospital Ning Angeles, Green City Medical Center; Central Luzon Doctors’; Hospital, Tarlac Provincial Hospital; and Bataan General Hospital and Medical Center. In a regional virtual news briefing, Lailani Mangulabnan, the Department of Health Local Health Support Division chief, said the JBLMGH was the only at hospital that had progressed to stage three of the process. The six others are still at stage one. “We have converted some of our wards into Covid-19 dedicated wards and, as of now, we have 119 beds. But we are still converting another ward for us to have another intensive care unit (ICU) because our ICU dedicated to Covid-19 is accommodating only 20 critical-care patients,” Monserrat Chichioco, JBLMGH medical center chief, said. She added that they were currently serving non-Covid patients.