Talisay recalibrates Covid drive
October 17, 2020
Mayor Neil Lizares yesterday reconvened the Talisay City, Negros Occidental, local Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to recalibrate the city’s drive against the spread of COVID-19.
Mayor Neil Lizares yesterday reconvened the Talisay City, Negros Occidental, local Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to recalibrate the city’s drive against the spread of COVID-19.
Mayor Renato Gustilo has placed the San Carlos City Hall and City Health Office under preventive lockdown, after the local government unit recorded 17 positive cases yesterday.
Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia has requested Health Secretary Francisco Duque lll Thursday to deescalate the community quarantine status of Bacolod City from General Community Quarantine (GCQ) to Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) effective yesterday due to the continuous reduction of additional COVID-19 cases in the city.
COVID-19 is real and should not be taken lightly, Dr. Hector Gayares, medical deputy of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said even as he assured the public that 90 percent of those who were infected in Bacolod City have recovered.
Twenty-five out of 1,665 market vendors who participated in the COVID-19 surveillance testing tested positive for the virus, or a positivity rate of 1.5 percent, Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said yesterday.
The province of Negros Oriental has logged two new recoveries from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and four new positive cases.
Negros Occidental has 141 new COVID-19 cases and Bacolod City has 25, the Department of Health reported yesterday.
The Bacolod City Legal Office-Enforcement Unit and market supervisors inspected vendors of the three major public markets in the city yesterday to determine how many complied and how many had not participated in the COVID-19 surveillance testing conducted Saturday.
Troopers of the 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company have temporarily taken over the EB Magalona Police Station in Negros Occidental after its personnel were subjected to COVID-19 swab testing.
Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia has issued Executive Order No. 63-A amending section 16 of EO No. 63 dated September 29, clarifying the application and implementation of the rule on religious gatherings while Bacolod City is under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) from October 1 to 31.
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