Bohol still under MGCQ until Sept. 30

FIREWOOD FOR THE ISLAND. Residents of Bien Unido in Bohol prepare bundles of firewood to be shipped to Malingin Island, which has been on complete lockdown after residents tested positive for COVID-19. Bohol is under extended MGCQ until Sept. 30. (PIA Bohol/LGU Bien Unido) 

CORTES, Bohol, Sept. 5 (PIA) -- Consistent with the new ruling of the Inter-Agency task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), Bohol Gov. Arthur Yap has extended the quarantine category in Bohol until the end of September. 

Through Executive Order (EO) No. 46 which the governor signed Aug. 28, 2020, he ordered the extension of the effectivity of EO No. 33 series of 20-20.

The IATF has recently revised its policy on quarantine categories and wants it done on a monthly basis instead of the 15-day interval. 

The continued increase in the number of corona virus disease cases in the second district of Bohol, according to the governor, necessitates the need to maintain the current status of a Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) to prevent further spread of the dreaded disease in other parts of the province.

The executive order alsco came as medical and security authorities imposed a total lockdwon in at least two island barangays of Guindacpan in Talibon and Malingin in Bien Unido due to COVID-19 cases believed to be of local transmission.

E.O. No. 33, series of 2020 placed the Province of Bohol under the state of Modified General Community Quarantine and provided guidelines for its implementation.

Under E.O. No. 46, however, the governor has set the extension of the MGCQ from 12:01 a.m. of Sept. 1 to 11:59 p.m. of Sept. 30, 2020.

With E.O. No. 33 and following the Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of the Community Quarantine in the Philippines as amended on June 26, 2020, it provided for the more relaxed and less stringent community quarantine, but still imposed measures and some protocols that are deemed helpful in managing and curbing the spread of the virus.

The measures and protocols imposed include a ban on domestic and international sea and air travel, provincewide curfew and home quarantine, partial liquor ban, the mandatory use of face masks especially when going out of houses, and the regulated business operations of establishments under the new normal in line with established national standards.

Along with the provisions of E.O. 46, the governor also stressed on the implementation of the Department of Transportation directives in the mandatory use of face masks and face shields for public transport commuters. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)