ILOILO – Almost half of the 43 local government units (LGUs) in the province imposed a moratorium on the arrival of locally stranded individuals (LSIs) from mid-December to the first week of January next month.
Twenty LGUs imposed moratorium on specific dates approved by the Western Visayas Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) through their respective resolutions, according to Ma. Aletha Nogra, the task force’s spokesperson.
Here are the moratorium schedules:
* Badiangan – Dec. 13 to Dec. 30
* Barotac Viejo – Dec. 14 to Dec. 27
* Concepcion – Dec. 15 to Dec. 29
* Barotac Nuevo – Dec. 15 to Jan. 2
* San Enrique – Dec. 15 to Jan. 5
* Passi City – Dec. 21 to Jan. 11, 2021
* Sara – Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, 2021
* Anilao – Dec. 21 to Jan. 3, 2021
* Leganes – Dec. 21 to Jan. 1, 2021
* Dueñas – Dec. 11 to Jan. 7, 2021
* Janiuay – Dec. 14 to Jan. 1, 20 21
* Lemery – Dec. 11 to Dec. 24, 2020
* Batad – Dec. 15 to Jan. 4, 2021
* Carles – Dec. 10 to Jan. 3, 2021
* Oton – Dec. 15 to Jan. 4, 2021
* Tigbauan – Dec. 15 to Jan. 15, 2021
* San Joaquin – Dec. 15 to Jan. 15, 2021
* Ajuy – Dec. 17 to Jan. 4, 2021
* Pavia – Dec. 21 to Jan. 4, 2021
* Pototan – Dec. 18 to Jan. 3, 2021
In asking for a travel moratorium, the LGUs cited reasons like disinfection, decongestion and reorganization of quarantine facilities and reprieve for frontliners deployed to manage the arrivals of repatriates in the province.
LSI repatriations will resume in January next year, according to Nogra. She appealed for patience and understanding to the stranded residents elsewhere in the country.
“I-avoid lang anay ang pag-travel this particular time kay ti kabudlay bala ang surge sang tawo, tapos ang travel,” Nogra said./PN
