Two Ifugao mayors stop meetings, travel

>> Friday, February 5, 2021

By Marcelo B. Lihgawon

BANAUE, Ifugao, - - Two municipalities of the province temporarily prohibited public gatherings and suspended government works due to Covid-19.
    Banaue Mayor John Raymund Wesley Dulawan issued executive order No.03 temporary prohibiting all forms of public gatherings for two weeks from Jan. 24 to Feb. 7 and reviving market hours for barangays, These gatherings include weddings, thanksgivings, church gatherings, cluster meetings of the Dept. of Education and distribution of modules or giving instructions to parents and students, operation of billiard halls, or “moma” engagements.
    Exceptions are wakes but those present must be limited only to immediate family members and nearest kin and must observe minimum health standards but no gambling.
    “Honga” and other cultural practices or needs addressing of the sick, but not thanksgiving purposes, were limited only to immediate family members.
     Dulawan also revived the old market window/schedules for said period as follows: Monday – Ducligan, Banao, Anaba and Bangaan; Tuesday – Bocos, Poblacion, Tam-an, Viewpoint; Wednesday – Poitan, Amganad and Balawis; Thursday – Gohang, San Fernando and Uhaj; Friday – Bocos, Poblacion, Tam-an and Viewpoint and Saturday – Batad, Cambulo, Pula and Kinakin.
    The curfew hours from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. was maintained.
    Banaue police were ordered to conduct patrols. Violators will be apprehended.
    Meanwhile, Agunaldo Mayor Gaspar Chilagan, Jr. prohibited unnecessary travel to and from  Bontoc, Mountain Province until further notice due to  detection of Covid-19 UK variant in the town..
    “All incoming persons from Bontoc shall be allowed only upon the presentation of negative RT-PCR result issued within the last 72 hours but still be subject to mandatory 14-days quarantine before going home or allowed to the community,” Chilagan said.
    Travel from the same must be coordinated with the municipal local government unit through the municipal inter-agency taskforce Covid-19 hotline number 0975 072 4730.
    All were directed to adhere to local health protocols and urged to join daily prayer hour every 5 a.m. and 7 p.m.
    The mayor also suspended office works in municipal and national offices within the MLGU compound including the business one stop shop on Jan. 25-26 except for emergency frontline offices to give time for contact tracing and swabbing and while waiting for results of the first set of swab tests sent for testing.
    Among five active Covid-19 patients in the municipality, four were employees of the MLGU.
     All activities within the MLGU compound were suspended during said including the business one stop shop. -- PIA Ifugao

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