Pasig City hires health workers, contact tracers as COVID-19 cases expected to rise

The Pasig City government  on Wednesday hired additional contact tracers and health frontline workers to augment its healthcare system to prepare for an increase in COVID-19 infections.

On Twitter, Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto said they have 690 contact tracers and 227 medical workers to help in the city's pandemic response as some of their personnel are still under quarantine.

Of the 227 workers, 28 are general practitioners, 61 are nurses, and 138 are other medical personnel including nursing attendants and medical specialists.

"Additional contact tracers now working; now at 690; more expected to arrive," said Sotto.

"Yesterday, I signed the contracts (COS/emergency hiring) of 28 GPs, 61 nurses, 138 others (med.specialists, nursing attendants,etc),"  he added.

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Some highlights for health cluster:

1) CESU
- Cases still projected to go up.
- Additional contact tracers now working; now at 690; more expected to arrive.
- Death rate with Omicron proving to be much lower than with Delta. pic.twitter.com/797eyQUaLm

— Vico Sotto (@VicoSotto) January 19, 2022

Aside from this, Sotto also bared that they reopened two more vaccination sites, adding that they will also reopen one more private-run inoculation site to decongest the other areas.—LDF, GMA News