ILOILO – This province’s borders are still closed to non-residents.
Its enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) has been extended up to Aug. 7 by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID).
Only the following are allowed entry:
* authorized persons outside of residences (APORs)
* returning residents
* overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)
* residents of Iloilo City and Guimaras
APORs include the following:
a. health and emergency frontline services personnel
b. government officials and government frontline personnel
c. duly authorized humanitarian assistance actors (HAAs)
d. persons traveling for medical or humanitarian reasons, especially those transporting medical supplies and laboratory specimens related to COVID-19, and other relief humanitarian assistance
e. persons going to and from the airport
f. persons crossing zones for work or business permitted in the zone of destinations, or activities as may be authorized by the IATF, and going back home
g. public utility vehicle operators
Residents of Iloilo province returning from Aklan, Capiz, Antique, Negros Occidental, and Bacolod City will be allowed entry if they are asymptomatic. Those with symptoms upon arrival shall be quarantined.
They must also present any valid government identification card.
Meanwhile, residents of Aklan, Capiz, Antique, Negros Occidental, and Bacolod City will be required the same quarantine measures and health protocols like those travelling from outside Western Visayas.
A permit from the Safe, Swift, and Smart Passage (S-PaSS) travel and mobility management system shall be required until Aug. 7.
Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. won’t appeal for a lower quarantine classification. He also clarified that there are no adjustments to the quarantine measures.
“Maayo gid ma-ECQ anay… besides we have explained before nga indi significant ang difference sang ECQ and modified ECQ,” Defensor told the press yesterday.
The curfew is still between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m.
Dispensing alcoholic drinks – or consuming them in public – is also prohibited during curfew hours.
Non-essentials are still not allowed.
Meanwhile, Defensor said the provincial government’s focus now is the processing of the cash aid from the national government to families affected by the ECQ.
“Nagapadayun man kita sang pagpangita sang assistance nga ihatag dugang,” Defensor added./PN
