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Mayor Sara Duterte Orders Mandatory Quarantine For F1 Contacts In City

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Davao City – Davao City Mayor Inday Sara ordered the mandatory quarantine of all F1 contacts of RT-PCR confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the city.

Duterte issued Executive Order (E.O.) No. 20-A, Series of 2021, known as “An Order Providing For Mandatory Swabbing Of All F1, F2, and F3 Contacts Of An RT-PCR Confirmed Positive Case Of COVID-19 In Davao City,” on April 20.

She also inserted a new Section 2 in the original E.O., which was issued on April 6 by then Acting Mayor Sebastian Z. Duterte, making quarantine mandatory for F1 contacts. The original Section 2, which detailed penalties, has now become Section 3 of E.O. 20-A.

Section 2 now states, “All F1 contacts should undergo quarantine while waiting for their test result. F2 and F3 contacts do not need to undergo quarantine while waiting for their test result.”

The E.O. also cited the need to expand the testing of contacts beyond the F1 category as an attempt to control the transmission of the virus and to recalibrate strategies to prevent and control COVID-19 transmission in Davao City amid the surge of cases in the National Capital Region (NCR) and other areas of the country and also the emergence of new COVID-19 variants.

All F1, F2, and F3 contacts of an RT-PCR confirmed positive case are all mandated to undergo swab testing. The Contact Tracing Team or the District Health Office will determine the testing date.

F1 contacts are defined as first-generation contacts of an RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19 positive case while F2 contacts are close contacts of F1 and F3 are close contacts of F2.

The E.O. also mandates that all existing laws and ordinances shall be pursued against those who violate its provisions.

Access the link of E.0. 20-A here – https://www.davaocity.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EO-20-s.-2021-Mandatory-Swabbing-of-F1-F2-and-F3-DS.pdf
(City Information Office | Michael Manguhig, RPN DXKT Davao OIC)

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