With the implementation of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, some basic medical commodities are already not available in the market. Maasin City was not spared from the much-needed alcohol being “out-of-stock”. In response to this necessity, the city, in close coordination with the Department of Public Works and Highways and the City Engineering Office, installed 13 handwashing sinks. These are installed in strategic places of the city such as the city hall and the fish, vegetables, meat, and dry market sections of the city’s public market.

Department of Health – Eastern Visayas Center for Health Development received today the results from Vincente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC). All eight samples are negative for COVID-19. The negative results were from suspected cases and currently admitted in the referral hospital, provincial hospital and private hospital in the region.

The Department of Health – Eastern Visayas Center for Health Development informs the public that there is one additional case of COVID-19 in the Region. This brings the total COVID-19 confirmed case to five (5)

On March 13 this year, the University Administrative Council convened to suspend classes and order a work from home scheme for all VSU campuses amid the #COVID-19 pandemic. VSU President Edgardo E. Tulin already laid out some plans and strategic actions that will help protect the VSU community from the spread of the virus while also ensuring the welfare and providing basic needs of stranded students, frontliners and our people.