The Philippines has been confronting a tremendous problem in its COVID-19 response. The country has adopted measures such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, and wearing of masks to stop the spread of the illness.
The objective of the study is to determine the efficiency rating among different provinces in Central Visayas based on the number of COVID-19 facilities, government expenditures, and bed capacity as main inputs and COVID-19 cases and mortality rate as main outputs.
The research made use of document analysis and desktop search in the data collection process and used the Constant-Return-to-Scale Data Envelopment Analysis model in the analysis.
The results indicate that the efficiency rating of Bohol, Cebu, and Negros Occidental is 13.07%, 7.47%, and 19.53% respectively. The results also showed that Siquijor has the highest technical efficiency and is the frontier for COVID-19 response in Central Visayas.