Twenty-two out of the 61 barangays in Bacolod City are considered free from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) since these areas recorded zero active cases and local transmission for two weeks.
Earlier this week, the Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center reported that 19 barangays in the city are COVID-free. Another barangay was added to the list on Friday (Oct. 23) and two more will be included on Saturday.
The first 19 villages with zero active cases in the past 14 days were barangays 4, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 36, 38, and Punta Taytay.
“These barangays should maintain their status and the other barangays should also try to catch up,” Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said.
He noted that the battleground against COVID-19 is in the barangays, pointing out that the height of the city’s confirmed cases in the past months, all 61 villages have positive cases.
He also said that despite Bacolod’s high number of cases, it has a recovery rate of 87.75 percent, or 4,098 cases out of the total 4,670, with 454 active cases and 118 deaths as of Thursday (Oct. 22).
Earlier this week, retired Maj. Gen. Melquiades Feliciano, chief implementer of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF)-Visayas, said that Covid-19 cases in Bacolod have been decreasing starting October as a result of the effective interventions and systems being implemented by the EOC to curb local transmission.
From third to fourth week of September, Bacolod has been averaging 50 cases per day, but between first and second week of October, cases have gone down to an average of only 25 cases a day.
On Oct. 21, the city recorded only 13 new cases while on Oct. 20, only four, the lowest daily record since June. NLG
