A liquor ban and new curfew hours will be imposed in Pateros starting tonight (March 13) at 10 p.m. following the increase in the number of active coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the municipality.

Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III issued Executive Order No. 7 which changed the curfew hours in Pateros from 12 a.m. to 3 a.m., to 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. as agreed upon by the Metro Manila Council (MMC).
While other local government units in Metro Manila will start the new curfew hours on March 15, Ponce said the Pateros municipal government “has seen fit to immediately implement the longer curfew hours to promptly address the problem especially that the other local government in the National Capital Region has started implementing the same.”
“Effective March 13, 2021, the curfew hours in the Municipality of Pateros shall be from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.,” he said in the order.
The mayor also said the municipal government will intensify the “campaign against mass gatherings and see the need to stop prolonged celebration where COVID-19 virus is rapidly spread.”
Ponce also ordered that “effective 10:00 p.m. on March 13, 2021, there shall be a town-wide ‘liquor ban’ in the Municipality of Pateros thereby prohibiting the sale, purchase, and consumption of all kinds of liquor and intoxicating beverages within the municipality.”
In a live broadcast on Facebook, he said the liquor ban will be in effect in Pateros until March 31.
Ponce imposed a liquor ban last year when Pateros was under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) and Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) but lifted it in October as the municipality transitioned to the General Community Quarantine (GCQ).
He ordered the police, barangay officials, COVID-19 Task Force, Bantay Bayan, and other local agencies to enforce the new rules.
Pateros recorded 27 new COVID-19 cases on March 12 and its total active cases rose to 76, an increase from 44 on March 10 and 33 on Feb. 27. It has 2,206 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of March 12 including 2,090 recoveries and 40 deaths.