More Bacolod residents undergo surveillance test

BACOLOD City – Another batch of 956 Bacolod City residents

underwent COVID-19 surveillance testing in the past three days.

The number is on top of the 2,012 market vendors who were also tested on Oct 10 and 13.

Executive Assistant Ernie Pineda, head of Quick Response and Extraction Team, said 98 employees of the Bacolod City Slaughterhouse operated by AVM Bernardo Engineering in Barangay Handumanan underwent surveillance testing Monday.

Another 380 Bacolodnons were also tested at the Bacolod Respiratory Outpatient (BRO) Center at the BAYS Center on Oct. 29.

They were market vendors and personnel of the three major public markets and of the Sectoral Concerns Office, as well as contact tracers and barangay health workers.

On Oct. 30, 478 contact tracers and healthcare workers underwent the same test at the Bacolod City Government Center.

In sum, 2,968 Bacolodnons from various sectors underwent surveillance testing.

Of the first and second batches of 2,012 market vendors, 29 tested positive for the virus.