BACOLOD City will remain under community quarantine with heightened restrictions (GCQ-HR) from September 1 to 7, 2021, an official said.

City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said Monday, August 30, that presidential spokesperson Harry Roque already announced on Saturday, August 28, that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) retained the GCQ-HR of the Bacolod City.

She said all the existing minimum health protocols and other regulations will remain in full force and effect for the extension of the GCQ-HR from September 1 to 7.

She added that it is only until September 7 after which the national IATF will release a new quarantine status.

Roque also announced that Negros Occidental will be placed under normal general community quarantine (GCQ).

Under GCQ-HR, entertainment venues with live performances, recreational venues, amusement parks, casinos and traditional cockfighting, among others, are not allowed to operate under the GCQ-HR in Bacolod City.

Church or religious gatherings for holy mass, prayers, worship services/similar activities will now be at a maximum of ten percent of the venue capacity.

Gatherings outside of residences will be prohibited except for those essential for the provision of health services, government services, or humanitarian activities authorized by the appropriate government agency or instrumentality. Gathering at residences with any person outside of one's immediate household shall likewise be prohibited.

Gatherings for necrological services, wakes, inurnment, and funerals for those who died of causes other than Covid-19 are allowed but now reduced to 10 percent of the venue capacity. Visits to memorial parks, cemeteries, and columbaria are allowed but are now reduced to not more than 10 persons per group and not exceeding 10 percent of the venue capacity.

The daily curfew hours will continue to be observed from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.

The rules and regulations in the selling of liquor, wine, beer, or any alcoholic or intoxicating beverage in public places will continue to be allowed only from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. However, the selling and/or consumption of such alcoholic beverages in authorized public places will continue to be banned and prohibited under Executive Order 31, Series of 2021, dated June 6, 2021.