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Zambo City To Implement Granular Lockdown, LIATF Clarifies Misconception

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The Local Task Force COVID-19 clarifies issues related to the proposed granular local lockdowns to be imposed in areas with high cases of COVID-19 in Zamboanga City.

City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office Head and Local Task Force Covid Chief Implementer Dr. Elmeir Apolinario explains that a granular lockdown is limited in scope depending on the transmission risks and will involve only smaller areas – sitio, purok, street, subdivision, building or compound and not the entire barangay.

The clarification came after a purported document coming from İATF recommending the implementation of a granular lockdown to six (6) barangays in the city with high cases of Covid-19.  The six barangays, Sta. Maria, Tetuan, Tumaga, Calarian, San Roque and Putik.

Residents of the said barangays expressed concern after having seen on social media of the said ECQ like lockdown on the mentioned communities.

Apolinario claimed it aimed to contain coronavirus infections, granular lockdowns will be implemented only after guidelines and other specifications shall have been finalized and properly disseminated to all concerned.

Granular lockdown was also implemented in some  NCR cities and municipalities this year and Cebu City last year.

(Source: City Government of Zamboanga Facebook page)

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