WITH the increase in active and new Covid-19 cases in Davao City, Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said she is not ruling out the possibility of the reimplementation of the food and medicine (FM) pass and prohibiting all movements on Sundays.
"Dako na siya nga possibility (That is highly possible), which can be discussed sa level sa (on the level of the) Davao [City] Covid-19 Task Force," Duterte-Carpio said on Monday, May 24, in an interview on 87.5 FM Davao City Disaster Radio.
Her statement came after the city's active cases already reached more than 1,000, while the city's sole Covid-19 referral hospital, Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), is already under "critical" level due to the increasing admission of severe and critical Covid-19 patients.
The mayor said the city will no longer issue new FM passes since the Vice Mayor's Office, through the barangays, distributed the new version of the passes prior to its suspension on March 15 this year.
The City temporarily suspended the implementation of Food and Medicine (FM) pass effective 12:01 a.m. of March 15, 2021, in accordance to Executive Order (EO) 12 Series of 2021.
Under section 17 of the said EO, FM pass and other documents for travel/movement are temporarily suspended. Establishments that previously require FM pass to access essential goods and services are now advised to look for Safe Davao QR (DQR) instead. This was implemented when the city experienced a downtrend of Covid-19 active cases in February.
Despite the decreasing active cases during that period, the mayor did not lift the implementation of the 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew and the 24-hour liquor ban in a bid to prevent a second wave.
The mayor said the city, as of now, is not yet planning to make changes in its Covid-19 strategy.
She also said the heightened community surveillance and expanded and contact tracing will continue.
