SAN JOSE, Antique – Gov. Rhodora Cadiao extended Antique’s low-risk modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) up to Jan. 31.
In Executive Order No. 01, Series of 2021 issued on Jan. 15 for the extension, Cadiao cited the order of the national government’s the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases for such.
Public health safety protocols would remain the same, and so were the requirements for returning residents or locally stranded individuals:
* notice of acceptance or coordination from receiving municipal local government unit (LGU)
* medical certificate from place of origin declaring they are not persons under monitoring or persons under investigation and neither have other infectious diseases
* travel authority from the municipality/city police of origin
* health risk assessment
* 14-day quarantine upon arrival in Antique at the community isolation facility of the receiving municipality
The symptomatic may undergo rapid diagnostic test on the seventh day of quarantine. If the result is negative for coronavirus, they may be allowed to complete their remaining quarantine days at home.
On the other hand, the asymptomatic with negative test results from their place of origin with validity of seven days from specimen collection date shall undergo a health risk assessment and be subjected to local quarantine.
For returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs), those who have completed the 14-day facility quarantine and have negative test results from their point of origin shall be assisted and transported to their homes. They will no longer be re-swabbed and quarantined by the receiving LGU.
Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams (BHERTs) will closely monitor their health status and report immediately to the Municipal Health Office for any development of signs and symptoms.
ROFs who have not completed their 14-day quarantine but with negative test results from their point of origin can complete their remaining quarantine days (from date of arrival in the Philippines) at the receiving LGUs’ identified quarantined facility.
Also a part of the extended modified GCQ is the curfew from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Exempted from the curfew are authorized persons outside the residence, nightshift essential workers, persons with medical needs or emergencies, and persons availing of urgent legal aid.
The dispensation of liquor is also regulated. Selling, buying or distribution by retail stores, convenience stores and malls are allowed only from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
As of Jan. 16, Antique’s cumulative cases of coronavirus disease 2019 hit 103 since recording started in March last year.
But with 88 cases having recovered and only one death, Antique’s active cases currently stand at only 14./PN
