Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III has issued the rules covering houses or areas that will be placed under granular lockdown.
He earlier said houses with confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases will be tagged with a yellow ribbon for easy identification.
Under the rules that will be implemented in Pateros, a house with a positive patient will be put under granular lockdown immediately on the day that the result of the reverse transcription- polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test comes out.
The house will be on lockdown even if the patient has been taken to a government isolation facility or is under home quarantine. His companions in the house will be declared as close contacts.
If the close contact of the positive patient lives in another house, that house will also be put under granular lockdown. The close contact should be under quarantine in his house as a precaution and not to infect his companions if he tests positive for COVID-19, according to the rules.
The close contact should wait for contact tracers who will guide them on what to do.
People living in a house or put under granular lockdown are prohibited from going out of their homes for 14 days unless they are also classified as housemates of the close contact, health workers or non-health workers working in health facilities, departing overseas Filipino worker (OFW) or someone who will attend to an emergency health concern.
No visitors, relatives or not, will be allowed inside the house or area under granular lockdown during the entire duration of the lockdown.
If a street or alley has several houses that have been put under lockdown due to a positive patient or close contact, the entire street or alley will be declared as “restricted zone.”
Those who will be allowed to enter and exit the restricted zone are authorized persons outside of residence (APOR) from the houses that are not under granular lockdown. No visitors will be allowed inside the zone and a liquor ban will be implemented in the affected zone.
Ponce said the municipal government will send food to people under granular lockdown and if those under lockdown need to buy items, they need to call the barangay for coordination.
All businesses in a house or area under lockdown will be closed.
People under granular lockdown who will violate the rules need to repeat the 14-day period from the day their violation was identified.