DAVAO City ― Mayor Sara Duterte said yesterday that she is contemplating on putting Davao City under extreme enhanced community quarantine (EECQ) if the number of confirmed coronavirus disease cases here would continue to rise.
In her live interview over Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR) 87.5, Duterte said this stricter quarantine measure would be imposed if the enforcement of a 15-day enhanced community quarantine from April 4 until April 20 would not suffice to curb Covid-19 cases.
Once imposed, she said there would be fewer business establishments that would be allowed to operate while the food and medicine pass might be used only on certain dates to prevent the people from going out during the EECQ.
According to Executive Order 23, issued on April 2, all private establishments and offices must close under the ECQ, except groceries, supermarkets, wet markets/palengkes, food commissaries, food processing or manufacturing, food delivery services, wholesale food outlets, convenience stores, sari-sari stores, hospitals, medical laboratories, pharmacies, drugstores, other health services/personnel, banks and ATMs, savings and credit cooperatives, money-transfer services and bayad centers, courier services, other delivery services, doctor’s and dentist’s clinics, gas stations, water refilling stations, LPG stations, business process outsourcing/call centers, and mass media outlets.
She said the local government would announce if the stricter measure would be necessary before April 19.
Duterte added the local government would lift the ECQ and place the city under a simple community quarantine if local authorities would see an improvement in the number of Covid-19 cases. (MindaNews)
