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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Fight Covid, stay safe!

WHILE THE number of Covid-19 cases is decreasing, Mayor Beng Climaco reminded locals not to be complacent as the deadly respiratory virus continues to pose grave risk to everyone, especially now that the country has recorded more patients with the Delta variant, the most contagious among all variants to date.


Climaco said the active Covid-19 cases are now over 100 from more than 2,800 in the past months as the local government continues to impose stricter measures to combat the spread of the virus in the community.

“The fight against the Covid-19 is not of the government alone. This is a personal battle between staying safe from getting infected with the virus. It is up to each and every one of us to ensure the safety of everybody, the safety of our family members and that is why it is important to follow the strict health protocols by always wearing our face mask and face shield and observe physical distancing at public places,” the mayor told The Zamboanga Post in a phone interview.

She said the emergence of the Delta variant is scaring health experts around the world because it is more virulent than all known Covid-19 variants at this time. “It has become the dominant variant in many countries, including the neighboring Indonesia and Malaysia and we don’t want it to spread here and that’s why we are doubling our efforts to vaccinate the people to prevent serious illness that needs hospitalization,” Climaco said.

“As we are thankful that we are now under GCQ, we really need to maintain our Covid protocols to continue lowering the cases. We need to exert more effort,” she said, referring to personal health responsibilities of each resident to help fight or control the spread of the virus. 

“Our death toll and the daily positive cases are not a sign for us to relax. It is a sign for us to continue to cooperate, to strengthen our safety measures, self-regulate and self-discipline. All our frontliners have dedicated and poured out their efforts to keep you safe. It’s about time that we cooperate,” Climaco further said. 

The mayor assured economic stakeholders and the business sector that the local government is doing its best to revive the economy. “We are supportive. We opened our economy, our venues for weddings and similar events. But, let us always remember to do the things that are essential,” she said. 

Last month, the Regional Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (CODE) Team commended Climaco for her active role in addressing the health crisis. 

Manuel Luis Ochotorena, regional director of the Office of the Civil Defense, and other members of the CODE Team cited the local government’s Covid-19 response, especially the creation of the Inter-Agency Compliance Team, the Barangay Sita Task Forces and Barangay Information Officers Network which ensure compliance of health and safety protocols and community quarantine guidelines. 

Ochotorena described the local government’s Covid-19 initiatives as “very commendable and impressive” and complied with the PDITR strategy in fighting the spread of the deadly virus which are Prevention, Detection, Isolation, Treatment and Reintegration. 

He said the CODE, which was approved in September last year by the national government’s Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on the recommendation of the Department of Health, aims to demonstrates active case finding strategies to prevent and eliminate clusters of community transmission of the virus and to provide guidance and recommendations to strengthen the implementing measures and mechanisms in fighting against the impact of pandemic while maintaining the balance between health and economy. CODE is headed by the National Task Force on Covid-19. (Zamboanga Post)


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