8 areas back on strict quarantine as virus cases keep rising

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Cebu City and Mandaue City opted to remain under restrictive lockdown even as six other areas were allowed to stay under enhanced quarantine to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

So far, most of the vehicles observed on the road were cargo trucks and vans, presumed to be private shuttles of companies finally allowed to operate during MECQ, she said.

Motorists are advised to have their IDs and other verification documents ready for inspection, she said.Also on Saturday, the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases kept Angeles City, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and Zambales under MECQ until the end of the month, instead of the less restrictive “general community quarantine ” as requested by their local officials.

Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella said he made the request because the city, along with Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu, was still finalizing data from the “strategic community testing” the three cities had been conducting since May 6.The three adjacent cities, where the bulk of Metro Cebu’s workers reside, had targeted 39,564 residents, or 10 percent of the total number of households in these localities, to undergo rapid diagnostic tests but there had been a low turnout of test takers.

Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan welcomed the decision to put the city under GCQ but insisted that it was still not safe to proceed with the GCQ. The testing of returning workers should not be construed as a requirement for their return, the task force stressed.

 

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