MANDAUE City Mayor Jonas Cortes has issued an executive order declaring a heightened modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) until Aug. 31, 2021 and mandating all residents to stay at home effective immediately.
The same directive also adopted the Cebu Province’s policy that requires all public utility vehicles (PUVs) to open the windows when transporting passengers.
Covered by this order are buses, vans for hire (V-hire), modern and traditional public utility jeepneys (PUJs), taxis, transport network vehicle service providers and shuttles.
Cortes issued the order on Tuesday, Aug. 17, as cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the City continued to climb. Three cases of the highly contagious Delta variant of Sars-CoV-2 were earlier detected in the City.
Even though the City has been under MECQ since Aug. 1, active Covid-19 cases increased by around 74 percent to 1,770 on Aug. 17 from 1,018 on Aug. 1 based on the Department of Health Central Visayas (DOH 7) case bulletins.