All Metro Manila hotels now fully booked, can’t be converted into Covid-19 isolation facilities

A health worker walks behind a sign outside San Juan de Dios Hospital indicating that its Covid-19 facility is at full capacity, in Pasay, Philippines. - Reuters

MANILA, April 10 (Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN): All 300 hotels in Metro Manila affiliated with the Philippine Hotel Owners Association (PHOA) are already fully booked and can no longer be converted into isolation facilities.

In a televised briefing Saturday (April 10), PHOA president Arthur Lopez said their hotels have already been turned into temporary lodging for returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).