BONTOC,
Mountain Province – This capital town now accounts
for 10 of the Mountain Province’s 25 confirmed cases, the least in the
Cordillera region.
As of October 16,
Cordillera had 713 active cases and 1,775 recoveries.
Rising cases made
Bontoc Mayor Franklin Odsey to order lockdown of a village to temporarily bar
the entry of locally stranded individuals (LSIs), especially those coming from
the National Capital Region.
In a memorandum order issued Oct. 16, Odsey said the municipal inter-agency task force addressing Covid-19 health crisis was informed of continuous influx of LSIs from the NCR and other places into Barangay Bayyo since Mountain Province was placed under modified general community quarantine.
Odsey said incoming LSIs could hardly be handled by municipal and barangay health workers, and could not be accommodated in the town’s quarantine facilities where they must complete their mandatory 14-day quarantine.
He said they were wary of LSIs coming from the NCR due to the high incidence of Covid-19 in the region.
Bontoc’s latest Covid-19 case was a 32-year-old male LSI who went home to Bayyo.
He was confined at the Bontoc General Hospital.
In a memorandum order issued Oct. 16, Odsey said the municipal inter-agency task force addressing Covid-19 health crisis was informed of continuous influx of LSIs from the NCR and other places into Barangay Bayyo since Mountain Province was placed under modified general community quarantine.
Odsey said incoming LSIs could hardly be handled by municipal and barangay health workers, and could not be accommodated in the town’s quarantine facilities where they must complete their mandatory 14-day quarantine.
He said they were wary of LSIs coming from the NCR due to the high incidence of Covid-19 in the region.
Bontoc’s latest Covid-19 case was a 32-year-old male LSI who went home to Bayyo.
He was confined at the Bontoc General Hospital.
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