NUEVA VALENCIA, Guimaras – With six cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Barangay Igang here was placed on “surgical” lockdown on Feb. 22 and would remain so “until further notice”.
Mayor Emmanuel Galila ordered the localized containment to stop the disease from further spreading.
The six cases – now at the Nueva Valencia quarantine facility – were from Sitio Bungalon (three), Sitio Proper (two) and Sitio Tamucol (one).
They were all close contacts of a COVID-19 case in Barangay Magamay, Nueva Valencia.
According to Galila’s Executive Order No. 09, Series of 2021 imposing the surgical lockdown on Barangay Igang, these six cases contracted the virus at a “gathering which involved drinking of alcoholic drinks” and which the positive case of Barnagay Magamay also attended recently.
The mayor thus also ordered a temporarily liquor ban in Barangay Igang.
The COVID-19 case in Barangay Magamay has yet to recover.
“To prevent the further spread of the virus, there is (also an) impending need to temporarily regulate and/or limit the operation of business(es) in the affected barangay,” according to Galila.
Only the following “essential” businesses are allowed to operate (from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.): market, groceries / convenience stores, pharmacies, gasoline stations, water refilling stations, barber shops, medical clinics, suppliers of construction materials, motorcycle/auto parts, agriculture/poultry, food, and public utilities./PN
