Samar Rep. Edgar Sarmiento called for the lifting of the lockdown in regions with zero or negligible infection rates at the end of the quarantine period. | deejayapINQ
Sarmiento suggested a number of conditions for the designation of “COVID-free zones” or “liberated zones,” such as certification by the Department of Health, full compliance with social distancing measures and temperature checks, and daily monitoring.He said only 50 percent of the work force in government, private offices and commercial establishments should be allowed to report back to duty, subject to rapid testing for “compliance, trial and monitoring purposes.
If the zero COVID-19 number is maintained, the local government may allow increments of 10 percent per week on the number of employees allowed to return to work in government and private establishments. Under Sarmiento’s proposal, borders will still be strictly closed “like a colony,” but life within the allowed jurisdiction “goes back to normalcy.”After April 30, the end of the lockdown in Luzon, Sarmiento said he expected many areas in the country to have zero to very negligible number of coronavirus infections.ADVERTISEMENT
“Science tells us that the virus has a 14-day incubation period so I would expect that areas which have been compliant with the [lockdown measures] would have already contained and managed the virus to stop possible transmissions as we are right now on our almost 45th day of lockdown,” Sarmiento said.
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