KORONADAL CITY, SOUTH COTABATO- More than 50 personnel of the City Health Office here have been placed under quarantine after eight of their colleagues tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
City Health Officer Edito Vego said 55 out of the 88 city health personnel were placed under quarantine after they were exposed to their colleagues who earlier tested for COVID-19.
He stressed that the city health office now lacked personnel for its massive contract-tracing amid the spike in the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the city, which has reached 90.
Vego said the provincial health office has augmented the contact tracing personnel of the city health office to take up the slack left behind by the medical frontliners of the city who were placed under quarantine.
In a bid to contain the transmission of he virus, City Mayor Eliordo Ogena issued an executive order which placed the entire city under stricter general community quarantine (GCQ) from September 11 to September 25.
Under the stricter GCQ, local authorities were mandated to impose stricter border control where residents from outside the city will be monitored upon their entry to the city.
Only 50 residents from each of the 10 neighboring municipalities of the province will be allowed entry into the city per day, except for frontliners and those non-city residents who will undergo medical check-up, and other emergency travels in the city.
Curfew will be imposed from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., and there will be total lockdown in the city on Sundays.