Philippine hotels run out of rooms to convert into Covid-19 facilities
/ Posted on 8 April, 2021 16:28 As Covid-19 infections continue to surge in metro Manila and nearby provinces, more hotels are needed to be converted into temporary treatment facilities, but existing quarantine hotels are not even enough to accommodate more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) returning to the country. Philippine Hotel Owners Association (PHOA) president, Arthur Lopez, said in an interview with ABS CBN’s Teleradyo yesterday (April 7) that their 78 quarantine hotels, 44 of which are in metro Manila, are “all fully booked”, with no rooms left to be repurposed as temporary tre...