ILOILO CITY There’s a week-long sea travel suspension between Iloilo province, Negros Occidental province and Iloilo City as means to stop the continuous spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The Office of Civil Defense (OCD-6) in Western Visayas confirmed the decision of the National Inter-Agen
Published May 25, 2021, 1:52 PM
More than a hundred households have been placed under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) and Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) due to the clustering of COVID-19 cases in a barangay in Baras, Rizal.
The Baras Municipal Government, in a Facebook post, said that having five confirmed cases and five suspected cases has prompted the local government’s task force on COVID-19 to place five households in Sitio Ibabaw in Barangay San Juan under Critical Zone equivalent to ECQ, and 116 households in the same barangay, under Containment Zone or MECQ until June 1, 2021.
Residents in the four ECQ households are strictly prevented from going out of their houses with only the Barangay Health Workers doing the errands of buying essentials for them. Food packs are being distributed to the residents since their lockdown on May 19.