– The provincial Inter-Agency Task Force has endorsed to the regional IATF a request to place Tabuk City under enhanced community quarantine , and four Kalinga towns under modified ECQ .
General community quarantine will be imposed in Pasil and Tinglayan towns, and modified GCQ in Pinukpuk. Based on report, the region recorded a Two-Week Growth Rate of 199 percent, and an Average Daily Attack Rate of 8.32. The other areas classified as critical were the towns of Besao, Bontoc, Sabangan, and Sadanga in the Mountain Province; Atok, Itogon, Kapangan, Mankayan in Benguet; and Hungduan and Kiangan in Ifugao province.
Kalinga Provincial Hospital Chief Dr. Marilyn Tubban-Duyan advised the public that all the clinical departments in the hospital, to include the Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Orthopedics, and OB-GYNE departments, will be on partial lockdown starting January 22 until further notice.
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