SAN JOSE, Antique – Six municipalities in Antique have decided to impose a moratorium on the return of locally stranded individual (LSIs). These are Culasi, Patnongon, Valderrama, Sibalom, Tibiao, and Tobias Fornier.
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region 6 director Juan Jovian Ingeniero as chairperson of the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force approved their request for a moratorium.
These are the moratorium schedules.
* Culasi – Dec. 5, 2020 to Jan. 5, 2021
* Tibiao – Dec. 7, 2020 to Jan. 4, 2021
* Patnongon – Dec. 8, 2020 to Jan. 5, 2021
* Sibalom – Nov. 20, 2020 to Dec. 4, 2020
* 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
Gov. Rhodora Cadiao supported the requests for moratorium. She said coronavirus disease frontliners of the six towns were already exhausted and needed to recharge.
The service vehicles being used by the six towns to fetch LSIs from Iloilo and Aklan also needed fixing, she added.
Cadiao, however, asked these municipalities to shorten their moratorium to give LSIs the chance to be with their families this Christmas and New Year celebrations.
“December is the peak of the holidays. How can you stop them (LSIs) from going home? In fact, wala man kita problema sa COVID-19,” she added.
In the whole Western Visayas, Antique has the least number of coronavirus disease 19 cases – just 77 since the pandemic started in March.
As of Nov. 16, Antique had only six active COVID-19 cases left – the lowest in Region 6. Seventy cases already recovered.
Also, Antique has only one COVID-19 casualty since the start of the pandemic – also the lowest death toll in Region 6./PN
