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Davao City To Inspect Offices And Business Firms Compliance With EO 57.

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Davao City –   The Davao City government will inspect workplaces and business establishments to ensure their compliance with the guidelines laid down in Executive Order 57 to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

“Ang atoang intention with the EO is to put accountability sa mga offices, establishments, and organizations in charge. If we say restaurants, restaurants will police themselves, and mag inspect ang city government team kung naga-enforce ba gyud ang restaurant (Our intention with the EO is to put accountability to the offices, establishments, and organizations in charge. If we say restaurants, restaurants will police themselves, and the city government team will inspect if they are enforcing the guidelines),” Mayor Inday Sara Duterte said.

“We are asking for your support and cooperation,” she urged the public. She also reminded Dabawenyos that Davao City is still under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ).

On Monday, Mayor Sara issued Executive Order (EO) No. 57 defining mass gathering of people that has more than twenty-five (25) individuals.

The EO states that “all mass gatherings are prohibited except buses, banks, hospitals, restaurants and other similar gatherings where people are not gathered together for the same common purpose.”

Section 18 states that all events and activities for leisure, entertainment, sports, gaming, and amusement are prohibited.

The allowable gatherings can only be for personal milestones, urgent government and business purposes, and shall be guided by:

(A) a gathering shall be allowed up to twenty (20) guests/participants including the celebrant/organizer and five (5) individuals for service providers/suppliers only. All other guests/participants can be online in another venue but will still be limited by the number of individuals mentioned above. Guests/participants cannot hop from one venue to the other;

(B) a successive event of twenty-five (25) guests/participants at a time may be allowed provided that there is a time for entry and exit of guests so that the two groups cannot gather together;

(C) if an event or activity has no service providers/suppliers, the guests/participants can be increased to a maximum of twenty-five (25) individuals;

(D) parade, motorcades, rallies, and other gatherings in public places are absolutely prohibited. The right to free speech and expression in freedom parks shall be respected but the event must be limited to twenty-five (25) individuals and must be supervised by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the City Health Office (CHO) to ensure that Section 1 hereof is implemented; and,

(E) government distribution of food or financial assistance can be increased to fifty (50) individuals at a time provided that Section 1 hereof can be strictly implemented.

For Offices, establishments, and organizations such as restaurants, places of worship, fitness clubs and gyms, cemeteries and funeral parlors, and schools, the enforcement of the guidelines and policies are under their supervision, so that the city government will only have to inspect whether they are enforcing.

The mayor also called on Dabawenyos to always stay at home unless the reason for travel is essential.

Section 17 of the EO states that all travel inside Davao City shall only be for accessing goods and essential services, for work in offices and industries, and daily two-hour maximum non-contact sports exercises.

“Goods and essential service is defined as all goods and services relating to the human need for food, hospital/health and wellness/medicine, money, work or shelter.,” she said.
(City Information Office)

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