"I hope that the national government, the national IATF can put up a coordinating team in Manila; per province, there is a desk that will manage locally stranded individuals."
Cadiao also agreed with the PRRD's view that the reopening of the businesses or economy should not be hastened given the absence of treatment for COVID-19.
“We will allow documented locally stranded individuals to enter and return to our province. They just have to coordinate with their respective local government units.”
The City of Bacolod has partnered with the Department of Health (DOH) in establishing the first hospital-based Level 3 testing laboratory in the country.
The Negros Occidental provincial government is granting a PHP2.5-million marketing fund to an accredited non-government organization (NGO) to consolidate the operation of the "Negrense: Kadiwa" center.