Zambo to issue color-coded quarantine passes

ZAMBOANGA CITY - Mayor Beng Climaco has approved the issuance of color-coded quarantine passes to minimize or limit the presence or movement of people in public areas and prevent the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus, or Covid-19, in Zamboanga.

Each family will get one color-coded pass and this will enable the holder to go out and buy their essential needs on a certain period. 

This new guideline was finalized after Climaco met with the security sector represented by Zamboanga City Police Director Col. Thomas Joseph Martir and Joint Task Force Zamboanga chief, Col. Antonio John Divinagracia, and Vice Mayor Rommel Agan, among others.

Mayor Beng Climaco in a meeting with Zamboanga City Police Director Col.  Thomas Joseph Martir and Joint Task Force Zamboanga chief, Col. Antonio John Divinagracia, and Vice Mayor Rommel Agan, and other officials. 

(Atty. Kenneth Vincent Beldua)

Atty. Kenneth Vincent Beldua, Secretary to the City Council, also explained this at a presser Friday at City Hall together with City Administrator Apple Go. 

He said the color-coded passes are all printed by the City Government and distributed by the barangay officials to individual families.

The first phase of the implementation of color-coded is as follows: Quarantine Pass A: holders of this pass are allowed to leave their residence on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; Quarantine Pass B: allowed to leave their residences on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

And if the situation so demands, he said the mayor will implement the second phase following the color-coding scheme where quarantine pass holders are allowed to leave twice a week only depending on their assigned color.

Beldua said essential workers shall also be issued a special pass, but in the meantime, they can present their company ID or employer's certificate to police checkpoints.

He said frontliners such as medical workers, social workers and the like, government officials and employees performing governmental functions or forming part of the skeletal workforce of the various agencies and other emergency responders shall only be required their ID at the checkpoints.

And on Sundays, Beldua said no quarantine pass shall be honored, except for medical emergencies. “This is the time where we need to disinfect and clean public areas,” he said.

He said those with illnesses requiring constant medical attention and procedures such as dialysis, chemotherapy and the like are exempted. “They will just need to present their medical certificate. Their companion or watcher shall likewise be allowed to accompany them,” Beldua said.

Mayor Beng Climaco together with Vice Mayor Rommel Agan and Atty. Kenneth Vincent Beldua, Secretary to the City Council, show the approved emergency ordinance.

He said the mayor also approved an emergency ordinance protecting Covid-19 patients, PUIs and PUMs and members of their family, including medical workers and other frontliners from discrimination.

The ordinance also contains prohibition on the restriction of movements of medical and other frontliners; violation of the strict home quarantine; disclosure of confidential personal information of patients, PUMs and PUIs; the non-wearing of face masks in public; non-observance of the social distancing rule and non-observance of curfew hours which is from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. and prohibiting the drinking liquor in public; the conduct of mass gatherings; disregarding checkpoints and hoarding of essential commodities.

The penalties for the above violations include imprisonment from 1 day to one year and or fine ranging from P500 to P5000. (Zamboanga Post)

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