Dagupan remains under GCQ
14 FRONTLINERS TEST POSITIVE
THE Dagupan City government decided to maintain its General Community Quarantine (GCQ) status after 14 of its frontliners tested positive in recent Risk-based Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests conducted with the help of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC).
The new infections were among the 586 test results (out of 720 tests) released by the PRC.
Last week, E.O No. 40 of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IAFTF) declared the city under Modified GCQ to further ease the restrictions and enable the city to start opening establishments and allow more transport services in the city.
Dagupan effectively became the epicenter of COVID-19 in Pangasinan after the Provincial Health Office cited the recovery of the only two remaining COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan: the 15-year old girl from Dupac, Asingan town and a the 28-year old male from Cabalintian in Sual town on May 30 and 31, respectively.
Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim said the 14 front liners, deemed asymptomatic of the virus, have been brought to the Region I Medical Center (R1MC) and the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) for isolation and care.
Mayor Lim said he sent an appeal to IATF to hold Dagupan’s transition to MGCQ and retain the city under GCQ after the 14 positive cases were confirmed.
He clarified that he suspended the effect of MGCQ in Dagupan by invoking his police power granted under the Local Government Code for the good of the people and ordered tighter control of police checkpoints at the city’s borders.
The newly infected included a resident of San Fabian, and another from San Carlos City from among the ranks of the Dagupan City Police, the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) and from the Anti-Hawking unit, including a dentist and a doctor of the City Health Office.
He advised families of the 14 frontliners to be quarantined for 14 days as he ordered contact tracing of all persons they met and the disinfection of the Dagupan City Hall and the Malimgas Public Market. (Leonardo Micua)
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