With Students at Home, Philippines to Use Schools for Quarantine

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FILE PHOTO: Workers wears hazmat suits as they disinfect and sanitize as precautionary measure against coronavirus at a public school in the City of San Juan in Philippines on March 09, 2020. (Photo: DANTE DIOSINA JR/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
FILE PHOTO: Workers wears hazmat suits as they disinfect and sanitize as precautionary measure against coronavirus at a public school in the City of San Juan in Philippines on March 09, 2020. (Photo: DANTE DIOSINA JR/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

By Andreo Calonzo

The Philippines will turn state-funded schools into quarantine facilities as it postponed physical classes to January next year amid the region’s worst coronavirus outbreak.

Half of public school rooms in the capital will be used to isolate COVID-19 patients, presidential spokesman Harry Roque said in a statement.

The Philippines has almost 144,000 infections as of Wednesday, and 75% of isolation beds in Manila are already occupied, according to the Health Department.

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