LA TRINIDAD, Benguet: The provincial government wants the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to temporarily suspend the conduct of mass testing in some municipalities, identified as high-risk areas because their existing temporary quarantine and isolation facilities are already compromised over a surge in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases.
Gov. Melchor Diclas said hospitals and quarantine and isolation facilities in Benguet were already almost full because of the increasing number of positive and symptomatic patients; thus, the need to locate more quarantine facilities to accommodate the huge number of daily cases being reported, especially from the mining communities.
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