IATF extends MECQ in Nueva Vizcaya town

By Raymund Catindig

SOLANO, Nueva, Vizcaya -- The Regional Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has approved the extension of the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) here until Sept. 30.

    Solano was placed under MECQ from Sept. 1 to 15 after recording the highest number of coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 cases in Nueva Vizcaya.

    The town had 179 of the 283 confirmed cases in the province as of Monday.

    The Solano police station was locked down on Monday after three police officers tested positive for the virus.

    Personnel of the provincial police were deployed to serve as augmentation force while the infected police officers and their colleagues who were exposed to them are on quarantine.

    At least 1,600 residents, mostly from areas where there the number of Covid-19 cases is high, underwent swab testing over the weekend.