AS COVID CASES DECLINE

CURFEW in Dagupan City has been lifted under a new executive order signed by Mayor Brian Lim on February 10, 2022.

Section 4 of Lim’s Executive Order No, 7 states: “The curfew imposed in the City of Dagupan adopted as part of the health measures to address the pandemic is hereby lifted, without prejudice to its reimposition should actual public health situation on a given period so require.”

Curfew in Dagupan was from 9:00 p.m. till 4:00 a.m. by a previous EO of the mayor, originally set at 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.

The EO also lifts the ban serving and consumption of liquor and other alcoholic beverages in public effective February 11, 2022, unless prohibited by separate issuances.

Also lifted is the implementation of scheduled disinfection every first and third Thursday of the month of public markets in Dagupan, that includes the Malimgas Public Market, Magsaysay Fish Market, Galvan Market, Malimgas Market Phase II (Makong), Magsaysay Fish Market Extension and the public corridors of MC Adore area and Centromart. These markets will no longer be closed.

At the same time, establishments are directed to continue enforcing minimum public standards, including restrictions on unvaccinated individuals.

The EO requires establishments to continue to comply with the 30 percent indoor venue capacity for unvaccinated individuals and 50 percent outdoor venue capacity, while strictly enforcing two-meter distance between seats as well as between tables of different groups.

Reacting to the lifting of the curfew, Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo said he welcomes it because “the records show that COVD-19 cases in Dagupan are now going down, and there is a need to resuscitate the economy of Dagupan badly bruised by the pandemic which started about two years ago.”

He added that the lifting of the curfew will be a big boon to those working at night, those  who have to be in the market at night.

Meanwhile, Bernard Tuliao, president of the Association of United Transport Organizations Province-wide (AUTOPro), said it will benefit the city’s jeepney drivers and operators, but what the jeepney drivers and operators want is to approve their proposed P5 fare increase amid continuous increase in the prices of diesel and gasoline.

Meanwhile, Marietta Ballesteros, president of the Dagupan City Small Vendors and Fish Consignment Association said with curfew lifted, they can already sell fish beyond 9 p.m. every night. “What continues to worry us is where we can permanently sell inside the Magsaysay Fish Market,” she said. (Leonardo Micua)

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