Several Makati streets under lockdown as barangay records 134 COVID-19 cases

Operatives of the Public Safety Department of Makati City on Wednesday blocked and monitored several streets in Barangay Pio Del Pilar after it recorded the highest number of active cases of COVID-19 in the city.

According to JP Soriano’s report on “24 Oras,” the number of COVID-19 cases in the barangay reached 134 on Tuesday.

Makati City spokesperson Don Camina said that out of the 800 individuals tested in the barangay, around 40 were found positive for the illness, who were mostly asymptomatic.

The residents found COVID-19 positive will not be allowed to go out of their homes for two weeks.

As of March 16, there are 868 active cases in the city. A total of 12,662 cases have also been recorded in the city, of which 11,341 have recovered and 453 have died.

Camina said that they have observed an increase in cases in the past weeks.

“Nung kasagsagan naman po ng COVID, umabot na tayo sa mga 2,000 pero that was last year pa. Bumaba na po ito pero nahahalata natin umaakyat po siya every week right now,” he said.

(At the height of COVID-19, our cases reached 2,000 last year. Though it decreased, we have noticed that it is now rising every week)

The city official said the COVID-19 ward of the Ospital ng Makati was almost occupied at 94 percent. The COVID-19 wards of other hospitals in the city are also full.

“All full. Kung tutuusin din po doon sa entire city ata, including the other COVID hospitals… nasa 84 percent po yata ang occupancy rate for COVID patients,” he said.

(We believe COVID-19 hospitals in the entire city has an 84-percent occupancy rate for COVID patients)

The three COVID-19 quarantine facilities in Makati are also filled to capacity.—Joahna Lei Casilao/LDF, GMA News