MANILA - Iloilo City will be joining 39 other areas under the Alert Level 1 status starting Friday until March 15, Malacanang announced Thursday. Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) approved the recommendation after the city met the prescribed criteria for a lower alert level status. "The Inter-Agency Task Force on Thursday, March 10, 2022, approved the de-escalation of Iloilo City to Alert Level 1 after meeting the prescribed criteria for de-escalation to Alert Level 1 of the sub-Technical Working Group on Data Analytics," Andanar said in a press statement. In a March 8 letter, Iloilo City mayor Jerry Trenas appealed to de-escalate the alert level system in the city from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1 citing a "drastic decrease" in the number of Covid-19 cases. "With tight surveillance, stringent implementation of health protocols, massive RT-PCR (reverse tra
APPEAL. Mayor Jerry P. Trenas on Tuesday (March 8, 2022) appealed for the de-escalation of Iloilo City's Alert Level 2 classification to allow more economic activities to open. In his letter, he said cases in the city are going down while the healthcare utilization rate has also declined.(PNA photo by Arnold Almacen/City Mayor's Office) ILOILO CITY - The local government here is appealing for a de-escalated alert level system from its current Alert Level 2 classification to allow the opening of more economic activities. Mayor Jerry P. Trenas, in his letter of urgent appeal dated March 8, said Iloilo City's 2.21 percent case fatality rate (CFR) is second to Aklan's 1.6 percent, which has the lowest CFR among provinces and highly urbanized cities in Western Visayas as of March 6. Aklan is currently under Alert Level 1 classification. Further, the city has recorded a "drastic decrease" in the number of cases, from the previous 1,113 cases in the recent two weeks