Bacoor extends Lockdown to july 24

BACOOR CITY, Cavite: Mayor Lani Mercado Revilla, in an executive order, has decided to extend a localized lockdown on Zapote 1 until July 24, 2020, citing rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). “Strictly stay at home, No tambay (loitering) and no visitors allowed. All quarantine ID passes of each households under the critical zone or localized lockdown covers are suspended until the lockdown is not lifted,” barangay (village) Chairman Vivian Gawaran-Ramirez said in their official Barangay Zapote 1 social media account. The local government is still providing food packs to residents of the affected areas. Maintenance medicine and other necessities can also still be referred to barangay employees and then brought to residents’ houses. Any person caught violating the order will be punished accordingly under Section 10 of the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act for non-cooperation and violation of the Bayanihn to Heal as One Act. Barangay Zapote 1 has 19 cases of Covid-19, 16 of them active, with no recoveries and with three deaths as of July 10.