The construction of the PHP120-million mega isolation facility here is expected to be finished within the month.

Dr. Elmeir Jade Apolinario, City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office chief, said in a statement on Saturday the facility located inside the Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone Authority in Barangay Talisayan is now 70 percent complete.

The 320-bed facility is fully airconditioned and the biggest since the convention center in Barangay Pasonanca was converted into a 175-bed quarantine site.

Once operational, the city will have over 2,000 bed capacity for Covid-19 cases, including the village isolation facilities.

“These isolation facilities are needed in case there will be a spike of Covid-19 cases brought about by the Delta variant,” said Apolinario, also the local task force on Covid-19 chief implementer.

The city has 123 actives cases of Covid-19 as of Friday, with 37 of them admitted in hospitals and the remaining 86 confined in isolation facilities of the city government. (PNA)