ANTIPOLO CITY- Two communities in Barangay Dela Paz in this city, known as the Pilgrimage Capital of the Country City, will be placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) starting Saturday (June 11).
The Office of Mayor Andrea Bautista Yñares has announced on the city government’s Facebook page that residents of LogCom and Piña Alley, both located at Sitio Phase 4B in Barangay De la Paz, will not be allowed to go out of their homes for seven days starting Saturday, due to the implementation of ECQ in their areas.
The city government said its City Health Office has recorded a case of local transmission, and the case doubling rate is less than one week in the two communities. These two criteria were set by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF) for local governments to place their areas under ECQ.
While in lockdown, residents in the affected areas will be subjected to expanded and targeted testing by health authorities.
Those who turn out positive for the coronavirus in the rapid testing will be brought to the city’s quarantine facilities, where they will remain until the result of their PCR or swab test comes back negative.
The city’s quarantine facilities are equipped with air conditioners and television sets with cable channels, and the local government is shouldering all the medicines, food, toiletries, and other needs of people in the quarantine facilities. There are doctors and nurses who will monitor their health on a round-the-clock basis, according to the city government.
Only those who have been classified as Authorized Persons Outside of Residence (APOR) such as frontliners, workers, and persons with medical emergencies will be allowed to pass the checkpoints manned by the police and local authorities in the areas under lockdown, where a single entry and exit point will be established to limit the movement of the residents in the two communities in Sitio Phase 4-B.
Around 600 households affected by the seven-day lock-down, according to the city government, will be receiving food packs for the duration of the ECQ.
As of 8 p.m. of July 9, the city recorded five new confirmed cases out of the total 371 cases, with 182 recoveries and 38 fatalities.
