BACOLOD City – Forty out of 57 persons under monitoring (PUMs) who violated quarantine protocols for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have reported back to the City Health Office (CHO).
This was after Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran threatened file charges against them as chair of the city COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force. He even urged the local police and citizens to arrest these people.
The CHO earlier tagged the PUMs as “lost” after follow-up, considering that they may be gone home, out of town, transferred to another barangay, and others who just checked out from the hotels being monitored per barangay.
Familiaran’s Facebook post caught the attention of netizens after he warned reveal the names of these PUMs.
He gave an ultimatum to the remaining PUMs to contact the CHO as soon as possible.
“They won’t be sanctioned if they communicate with the CHO as soon as possible,” he said./PN
