This is a developing story.
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental— The Department of Health in Western Visayas announces today, that over 600 combined cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Bacolod City and the entire province of Negros Occidental.
These figures are more than double as compared to cases recorded in the previous days.
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As this developed, hospitals in the city continue to refused to admit new patients either due to lack of beds or medical workers. Even non-COVID patients struggle to secure a hospital bed, with some slowly dying in emergency room.
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