Tuguegarao City (Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN) In a virtual press briefing on Friday morning, Soriano announced that the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) on COVID-19 has already approved the extension of ECQ here. The ECQ here was supposed to end January 29, but this has been extended for five more days. The extension was made after the COVID-19 situation worsened in the city with the City Health Officer noting that, from January 6 to January 20, there had been an average of 16 new COVID-19 cases, and from Januanry 20 to January 28, the average number increased to 23. ECQ was first imposed in Tuguegarao City from 12:01 a.m. January 20 to midnight of January 29 after Mayor Soriano made the request to the RIATF when the number of active cases reached 246, mostly local transmissions in 30 barangays.