SAN JOSE, Antique – Four more municipalities in Antique are imposing a moratorium on the return of locally stranded individuals (LSIs) – San Remigio, Sebaste, Caluya, and Hamtic – raising the number of such municipalities to 12.
The Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) approved the moratorium in Resolution Number 78 signed by Department of Interior and Local Government regional director Juan Jovian Engeniero.
Here are the moratorium schedules:
* San Remigio – Dec. 11, 2020 to Jan. 3, 2021
* Sebaste – Dec. 10, 2020 to Jan. 10, 2021
* Caluya – Dec. 15, 2020 to Jan. 4, 2021
* Hamtic – Dec. 10, 2020 to Jan. 5, 2021
The local government units (LGUs) of the four towns said they needed to decongest their respective quarantine facilities before accepting more returning LSIs.
They also wanted their frontliners to have time to rest this holiday season.
There are now a dozen Antique towns with RIATF-approved LSI moratoriums. The eight that earlier secured approval were the following:
* Anini-y – Dec. 9, 2020 to Jan. 5, 2021
* Belison – Dec. 4, 2020 to Jan. 8, 2021
* Tibiao – Dec. 7, 2020 to Jan. 4, 2021
* Patnongon – Dec. 8, 2020 to Jan. 5, 2021
* Sibalom – Nov. 20, 2020 to Dec. 4, 2021
* Tobias Fornier – Dec. 9, 2020 to Jan. 3, 2021
* Culasi – Dec. 5, 2020 to Jan. 5, 2021
* Valderrama – Dec. 4, 2020 to Jan. 3, 2021
Six towns have yet to ask for similar moratoriums. These are Bugasong, Pandan, Barbaza, San Jose, Libertad, and Lau-an.
Antique has 18 towns.
Gov. Rhodora Cadiao supports the LGUs’ request for LSI moratorium. Their frontliners are already exhausted, she said./PN
