Entire Caraga region
now placed under ECQ after confirming first COVID-19 case
By Doreen Marielle N. Rosales
BUTUAN CITY, Apr. 10 (PIA) - The Caraga Regional Task Force on COVID-19
or One Caraga Shield placed the entire Caraga region under Enhanced Community
Quarantine (ECQ) on April 6 after the confirmation of its first case of the
Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
According to the task force chairperson and Agusan del Norte provincial
governor Hon. Dale Corvera, there will now be limitations to the movement of
the different stakeholders in the region, particularly in disallowing the entry
of non-residents of the different cities in the region.
Curbing the transmission of the disease is their priority hence their
continued cooperation with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine
National Police (PNP) in order to come up with appropriate interventions on the
issues surrounding ECQ.
“We view the implementation of ECQ as not only as necessary but the only
appropriate measure to prevent the disease from being transmitted further,” he
added.
This prompted the police force in the region to heighten its
surveillance in the region. Apart from permitting entry to select individuals
in the region, quarantine passes will now be given to each household.
In Butuan City, one quarantine pass shall be given to each family in the
city. The city government has also issued a directive to suspend the operations
of public utility vehicles.
Meanwhile, local authorities are ready to provide assistance to
individuals who will be greatly affected with the implementation of ECQ, such
as the indigent, the elderly, and those who became unemployed.
The local government urged Caraganons to avail the programs of the
government that are intended to provide assistance such as the Social
Amelioration Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD), COVID-19 Adjustment Measures Program (CAMP) and the Tulong
Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Displaced/Disadvantaged Workers – Barangay Ko, Buhay Ko
(TUPAD – BKBK) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
PNP Caraga regional director PBGen. Joselito Esquivel, Jr. also bared
that the delivery of primary commodities sourced within the region will
continue. However, goods coming from areas outside Caraga will be subjected to
closer inspection.
He also clarified that the guidelines that the police force in Caraga
will be following are those issued by the Inter Agency Task Force on Emerging
and Re-emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) on the exercise of police force
under ECQ.
In addition, he reminded the local police units that they do not allow
abiding protocols that are not in line with the said guidelines.
They also warned against the spread of false information pertaining
COVID-19 among the public. Those who will be found guilty shall face
liabilities that may result in imprisonment. (PIA-Caraga)
Proteksyon laban sa
COVID-19 mas binigyang pansin sa Caraga, libreng sakay para sa health workers
inilunsad
By Nora C. Lanuza
LUNGSOD NG BUTUAN, Abril 10 (PIA) -- Upang mas lalo pang maprotektahan
ang mga Caraganons laban sa COVID-19, naglagay ng mahigit 30 decontamination at
sanitation tents at pati na rin gantry facilities ang Department of Public
Works and Highways o DPWH Caraga sa iba’t ibang lugar ng rehiyon.
Ayon kay Engr. Pol M. Delos santos, regional director ng DPWH Caraga,
ito ay isa lamang sa mga iniyatibo ng ahensya upang matulongan ang pamahalaang
sugpuin ang paglaganap ng nasabing virus.
Maliban sa mga contamination at sanitation tents at gantry facilities
nagtalaga din ang DPWH pati na rin ang Land Transportation Office o LTO ng mga
libreng sasakyan para sa mga health workers upang makaabot sila sa
kani-kanilang mga trabaho sa tamang oras ang makauwi din ng ligtas sa kanilang
mga tahanan.
Laking pasasalamat ni Sarah Jing Varron, isang nursing attendant ng
Butuan Medical Center, sa DPWH dahil hindi na siya mahirapan pang humanap ng
kanyang masasakyan.
Ayon din kay LTO operations chief Urbano Maglines, Jr. bago paman
idineklarang isailalim na ang buong rehiyon sa enhanced community quarantine,
at bilang paghahanda kung sakaling kakailangin ng mga health workers ang mga
sasakyan, naglunsad na rin ang LTO ng kanilang libreng sakayan upang mas
matugonan ang pangangailan sa panahon na wala ng pampublikong sakayan.
Dagdag pa ni Maglines, nagpalabas na rin ng kautosan si LTO regional
director Nordy Plaza sa mga district offices na bigyan ng kaukulang pansin ang
mga pangangailan sa transportasyon ng kanilang mga sinasakupan. Ayon din kay
Maglines nagkaroon na ng pag-uusap ang LTO at bus company kung sakaling
kakailanganin ang kanilang serbisyo hinggil sa sakayan. (NCLM, PIA Caraga)
