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Bacolod: ‘No exemption policy’ for APORS urged

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Bacolod City – The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod is urging the National Inter-Agency Task Force in Managing Emerging Infectious Disease (NAITF-MEID) to approve the intention of the Bacolod AITF to include all APORs among those who should submit a negative RT-PCR test result before they can be permitted to enter Bacolod City.

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The resolution authored by Councilor Renecito Novero, unanimously approved by the SP yesterday, said the current surge in the National Capital Region of COVID-19 especially with the advent of its new variant called Omicron forebodes grim possibilities of its widespread transmission countrywide, Bacolod City included.

The matter was promptly tackled in the meeting of the city Emergency Operations Center (EOC) recently where everyone concurred to the view that, if not properly addressed, travelers from the NCR and other local governments with Level 3 Alert Status and above, whether private individuals or government officials, will be possible carriers of the virus and can thus infect unknowingly myriads of the city’s people and jeopardize its entire healthcare system, it said.

The resolution said that under the current NIATF policy, government APORs (Authorized Persons Outside Residence) are exempted from the requirement of negative RT-PCR test result in their arrival elsewhere in the country, including Bacolod City.

In our earnest quest to spare the City of Bacolod from the surging affliction which COVID-19 and its variant may cause anew, the city EOC unanimously considered the inclusion in the city’s local travel protocol a “no exemption policy” regarding the submission of negative RT-PCR test result for people who wish to enter Bacolod City whether they be government authorized person outside residence (APORs) or otherwise and whether fully vaccinated or not, it said.

This travel restriction may accordingly be relaxed anytime as the COVID-19 situation abates, the resolution said. (Chrysee Semillano via The Visayan Daily Star (TVDS), photo courtesy of TVDS)

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