BACOLOD CITY - The Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) here and in Negros Occidental has been extended until April 30, 2020.
– The Enhanced Community Quarantine here and in Negros Occidental has been extended until April 30, 2020.Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson announced this in separate press briefings on Wednesday following the issuance of their respective Executive Orders.
Based on the Executive Order, the City Health Office reported that since COVID-testing began here, a total of 162 persons had been tested as of April 8. “All the foregoing premises considered, the city cannot be complacent and must therefore continue to institute stringent measures to stop the transmission of COVID-19,” he added.
He said that all the rules and regulations based on E.O. NO. 26 earlier issued for the declaration of ECQ shall prevail on the extension. In Negros Occidental, Lacson, in his Executive Order, said that as a disease prevention and control measure in limiting the transmission of COVID-19 in the province, the Provincial Health Office has recommended the said extension.Lacson said the validity of the ECQ passes earlier issued by the provincial government is deemed extended for two weeks.
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