BAGUIO City Mayor Benjamin Magalong has asked the city police office to help in implementing the curfew for minors amid the Covid-19 scare.
Magalong in a memorandum issued Thursday, March 12, to Baguio City Police Office City Director Police Colonel Allen Rae Co asked for the strict implementation of the curfew set since 2018 for minors.
Magalong said “In view of safeguarding our youth, implementing the directives of the Covid-19 interagency task force and preventing the transmission of Covid-19 in Baguio City, the assistance of the BCPO is necessary to strictly enforce Ordinance No. 23, series of 2018, imposing a curfew on minors in the city between the hours of 9 p.m. to 4 a.m.”
In a previous executive order, the chief executive has halted school from March 13t to 22 in all levels for both public and private schools in a bid to safeguard students and the for school premises to be disinfected and sanitized.
Magalong said the assistance of the BCPO is needed in ensuring that students remain in their homes during the period of class suspension.
The orders of the mayor stems from a pronouncements from President Rodrigo Duterte for all government units to render full assistance and cooperation and mobilize the necessary resources to undertake critical, urgent and appropriate responses and measures in a timely manner to curtail and eliminate the threat of Covid-19.
Students are advised to be kept at home by parents while those who live in nearby provinces are likewise advised to go back to their families.