Number of Covid cases going down

WITH ZAMBOANGA under Moderate Enhanced Community Quarantine status, the number of active Covid-19 cases are slowly decreasing, but medical experts and the local government reminded residents not to be complacent and follow public health protocols.

Zambo Covid cases breach 1,000 mark, hospital wards full

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The number of active Covid-19 cases here has breached the 1,000 mark with a record high of 177 cases in just one day as government hospitals are now full of patients, including doctors who contracted the deadly respiratory disease from non-Covid wards. 

Zambo checkpoint, inireklamo!

HUMIHINGI NG tulong kahapon kay Zamboanga Mayor Beng Climaco ang isang janitress ng hotel dito matapos na umano’y tiketan ito ng mga pulis sa checkpoint ng Barangay Divisoria dahil sa umano’y hindi pagdadala ng quarantine pass.

MECQ in Region 9 extended!

PAGADIAN CITY – President Rodrigo Duterte extended until the end of June the stricter Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) status in the whole of Zamboanga Peninsula in Western Mindanao or Region 9.

Region 9 under MECQ!

‘Zambo folks told to vaccinate’ 

THE NATIONAL government has placed the entire Zamboanga Peninsula region under a stricter community quarantine status following the continuing increase in Covid-19 cases in Western Mindanao.

Zambo remains under MGCQ

ZAMBOANGA CITY remains under Moderate General Community Quarantine or MGCQ until September 30 following the latest announcement by the national government’s Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases or IATF-EID.

Face mask cuts risk of Covid infection

AMID reports of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, which is the causative agent of Covid-19, being airborne, the Department of Health (DOH) stressed the importance of wearing a face mask as part of the prescribed minimum health standards to ensure utmost protection from the deadly virus.

Mindanao, BARMM under MGCQ

INTER-AGENCY Task Force on Emerging Infection Diseases or IATF-EID has placed the whole of Mindanao, including Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces - except Zamboanga and Davao cities - under moderate general community quarantine or MGCQ until June 15 despite the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.

More businesses now allowed under community quarantine

THE INTER-AGANECY Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has revised the guidelines for the nationwide community quarantine to allow more businesses to operate at full capacity.

Religious gatherings now allowed in areas under MECQ, GCQ

THE INTER-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has allowed the conduct of religious gatherings in areas placed under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) and general community quarantine (GCQ).