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Quezon Institute, Red Cross to open quarantine facility for COVID-19 patients next week

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Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News

MANILA — The Department of Health on Friday said COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms can stay at a community quarantine facility in Quezon City starting next week.Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the DOH already met with the Philippine Tuberculosis Society Inc., which owns the Quezon Institute hospital.“We talked about having a quarantine facility at Quezon Institute,” Vergeire said in Filipino. “They will serve as a facility for COVID-19 positive patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.”Vergeire said the Philippine Red Cross will also set up tents at Quezon Institute to house patients under investigation who are also asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms.She said the hospital will be open to COVID-19 patients next week.Vergeire clarified that only those referred by health units and hospitals will be allowed to stay at the community quarantine facility.Those with severe symptoms or are among the vulnerable population who are most at risk for COVID-19 will stay in hospitals.The DOH earlier said that it is already studying the possibility of converting schools and evacuation centers into quarantine facilities.

The Department of Health on Friday said COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms can stay at a community quarantine facility in Quezon City starting next week.

The Department of Health on Friday said COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms can stay at a community quarantine facility in Quezon City starting next week.

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Quezon Institute, Red Cross to open quarantine facility for COVID-19 patients next week

Kristine Sabillo,

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Published Mar 27, 2020 08:48 PM PHT

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