Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 11) — A barangay in Valencia City, Bukidnon is now on lockdown after the city reported its first case of COVID-19.
Mayor Azucena P. Huervas has issued an executive order placing Barangay Lumbayao under strict enhanced community quarantine to help prevent the further spread of the disease.
The order directs the city’s anti-COVID-19 task force, City Health Office (CHO) and Disease Surveillance Teams to conduct contact tracing and other protocols.
The patient, an official in Barangay Lumbayao, had contact with other people living in the area after returning from a derby in Matina, Davao City where he contracted the virus.
Under the lockdown, residents are required to stay at home while all stores and establishments have been ordered closed.
“The government shall ensure the systematic delivery of food, other basic necessities and medicines to the residents of the Barangay,” the order said.
Land transportation has been suspended except for emergency vehicles, delivery trucks carrying basic necessities, prime commodities, and agricultural products, vehicles of the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines, and authorized government vehicles.
Government personnel, frontliners, and people authorized to go outside their houses are required to wear face masks and practice extreme social distancing.
The barangay is on lockdown from 6 p.m. of April 9 to 6 p.m. of April 26, 2020.
CNN Philippines stringer Melchor Velez contributed to this report.
