TACLOBAN CITY, September 22 (PIA) -- Secretary Martin Andanar of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) congratulated Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez for the city’s notable efforts in the fight against Covid-19 during the September 21 episode of Laging Handa Network Briefing.
According to Secretary Andanar, Tacloban has seen a sharp decline in the number of daily confirmed Covid-19 cases from the first week of September up to the present.
“Aside from placing the city under the General Community Quarantine status from September 1-30, we have also noticed the good practices implemented in the city such as the utilization of hotels as isolation centers, the implementation of the Tacloban Safe City Application using the QR codes, and the empowering of barangay officials through the establishment of the Hyper Local Measures Kontra Covid,” Secretary Andanar said.
Grateful for the acknowledgement, Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez said during the program that hotels are suitable for isolation as these are complete with the needed facilities. According to him, this is also a sort of hitting two birds with one stone, considering the use of the entire hotel at a very large discount for isolating Covid-probabale individuals, and at the same time helping the business community.
“When certain individuals have been determined by the contact tracers to be close contacts of a Covid positive patient, we immediately isolate them. We just do the swabbing at the hotel and once tested negative, we send them home. For those with positive results, the quarantine continues,” the Mayor said.
On the QR Code policy, Mayor Romualdez said that Tacloban, being the capital city of the region, this system has been a big help in identifying and monitoring the movements of the people in the city. The QR Code bearing the name and address of the person, is a mandatory requirement before being entertained in any business establishment. He also said that this is the best way of controlling people because when a person is an LSI or has just came from a place under ECQ, the code automatically signals alarm, hence, an immediate attention is given.
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