BM wants all cockpits closed temporarily
A PROVINCIAL board member is set to ask the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) to temporarily close and ban the operations of cockpit arenas in the province.
Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario is keen on recommending the measure to ward off the possible renewed spike of COVID-19 cases like what happened in the aftermath of the holiday season in December amid the threat of the new UK COVID-19 strain.
Based on the report to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, a provincial IATF official, there are some towns and cities that already temporarily stopped the operation of cockpit arenas.
But Board Member Rosario wants the temporarily stoppage of operations of cockpit arenas in all towns and cities, except perhaps in areas where there are no more COVID-19 cases, because it is where a large number of afficionados converge without regard to health and safety protocols.
He dared officials of the provincial IATF and Oro to enter cockpit arenas incognito and they would surely find flagrant violations of health and safety protocols inside the arenas.
At the same time, Rosario proposed that the provincial government buy body freezers where persons suspected to have died of COVID-19 can be temporarily kept while waiting for the results of their Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR test) since the protocol is to cremate the bodies of COVID-19 victims immediately.
He cited cases of four persons suspected to have died of COVID-19 in Manaog that were cremated immediately without the results of their RT-PCR test known. When the results finally came, two were found negative of COVID-19.
With a freezer to keep the bodies while awaiting results, bereaved families of victims can hold wake services if the victim proved negative of COVID-19, and only then should cremation proceed once the positive infection has been verified.
Rosario, the chairman on health of the SP, is a physician himself. (Leonardo Micua)
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