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.
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.
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| 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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