NEGROS Occidental and Bacolold City will be under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) effective May 16.
This after Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Ano made an announcement Wednesday, May 13, placing all areas that were earlier classified as “low risk” areas to MGCQ.
Ano said various local chief executives and governors filed petitions and requested that they are not yet ready to lift the community quarantine and that amendments by the national Inter-Agency Task Force are expected in their meeting last night.
Eight regions including Western Visayas were earlier placed under “low risk”.
Ano said the governors and local chief executives will have guidelines on how to implement the MGCQ that will empower them to contain the spread of the virus and avoid the possible second wave and third wave of the virus spread.
“There will be guidelines to follow,” he said.
Meanwhile, two more overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who returned recently in the province test positive for Sars-CoV-2, which causes the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) per laboratory results from DOH-Western Visayas.
Patient 98 is a 35-year-old male resident of Valladolid while patient 98 is a 27-year-old male from Bago City. Both are staying at a quarantine facility and has returned to the province on April 28.
The two are the only new confirmed cases that increase the total positive in Western Visayas to 206 as of May 13.