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| Returning residents arrive at the Tacloban airport in this August 23, 2020 photo. (Photo from: The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines) |
[아시아뉴스통신=페이 기자] The Eastern Visayas regional inter-agency task force on emerging infectious diseases (IATF-EID) has asked the national government to revert the status of the entire region to general community quarantine (GCQ) and impose a 15-day ban on the return of locally-stranded individuals (LSIs).
Department of Health (DOH) Regional Director Minerva Molon said in a press briefing on Wednesday that key regional task force officials and provincial governors agreed to pass the two resolutions to the national IATF during a meeting on Tuesday.
"The task force highly recommended to place the region back to GCQ starting August 28 and temporarily ban the return of our LSIs since our hospitals and isolation facilities are almost full of COVID-19 patients,” Molon told reporters.
Under GCQ, movement and travel of all residents are restricted while health and sanitary protocols must be observed especially in crowded and public places. The entry of all persons originating outside a province either by land, air, or sea is prohibited except for returning overseas Filipino workers, who must undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine period in their respective local government units upon arrival.
Also exempted from the travel ban are workers in the essential business establishments and industries, health and emergency front-liners, uniformed personnel, those traveling for medical or humanitarian reasons, skeleton workers, accredited construction workers, delivery personnel of cargo vehicles, among others, provided they present their IDs or other required documents.
