Kalinga’s biggest school offers facility as quarantine
>> Sunday, May 3, 2020
TABUK CITY, Kalinga -- Mildren Cabay,
principal of Tabuk City National High School (TNHS), led school personnel in
heeding the call for assistance and offered their school building to be as one
of the facilities for Covid-19 persons under quarantine. The building is
capable of housing 100 persons.
The
newly-constructed and ready for occupancy supposedly for school opening in June
is a four-story building with 20 classrooms.
Cabay asked
several persons to prepare the classrooms to accommodate those who would be
quarantined.
Aside from
TNHS, several other schools here, like the Dilag Integrated School, were also
identified as municipal quarantine areas.
Aurora
Amilig, Tabuk City executive assistant to the mayor, said the city is preparing
for the possible influx of would-be quarantined persons, identifying Tabuk City
gymnasium with 80 beds, Tabuk City National High School and Agbannawag
Evacuation Center as its isolation facilities.
Department of
the Interior and Local Government (DILG) provincial director Max Mayer Adong
reported that the agency immediately issued on April 17 a memorandum to all
mayors reiterating the need to establish their own isolation facilities in
every city/municipality and their barangays.
With the
issuance, the number of barangay isolation units (BIUs) increased from 82 to
93, which is a 61 percent completion rate out of the 152 barangays in the
province.
Adong advised
the LGUs to be fully prepared for the possible influx of individuals traveling
in and out of the province once the ECQ is lifted on April 30.
The
inter-agency task force for emerging diseases is set to visit the school for
the possibility of the area being identified as a quarantine facility.
Kalinga
province is among the areas in the country identified by the national IATF to
shift to the general community quarantine after April 30. (PNA)
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