コロナに関するセブ市の隔離区分は、いまだGCQで、一番規制が緩いとされるMGCQより規制レベルが高い状況です。
そのため、レストランやショッピングモール、サロン、教会や、その他の商業関連の建物の事業所に入るには、人数制限があります。
例えば、サロンでは50%上限、ファストフードやレストラン、スーパーでも収容人数の50%未満に制限されています。
セブ市では、これから選挙やクリスマスシーズンに突入することから、コロナの感染急拡大を懸念視しています。さらに、結婚式や葬式などの人の集まりが激しいイベントごとへのキャパシティ制限を訴えています。
“Cebu City residents, politicians reminded on gathering ban”
Cebu City is still under the Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ), which is about a shift between GCQ and the New Normal. Restrictions on the number of people to enter in all establishments like restaurants, shopping malls, salons, churches, and other business or commercial related buildings and etc. is still being controlled.
Businesses like the following:
- Salons- can operate with only 50% of its total venue capacity.
- Hotels- this type of business needs a “DOT” Certificate of authority for them to be able to operate.
- Fast food, Dine-in restaurants and supermarkets are given the maximum of 50% of their venues capacities.
CEBU CITY – City officials here on Monday reminded politicians and residents against the holding of and attending activities that would generate a crowd and trigger another surge in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases, noting that the election season and Christmas are nearing. In a press briefing, Acting Mayor Michael Rama reacted to a report of a barrio fiesta event in Barangay Talamban where a religious activity drew a throng of people after the organizer allowed a drum and bugle corps to play music as residents venerated the patron saint.
Rama said he was leaving to the local police and Department of the Interior and Local Government the decision on penalizing individuals who violated the executive order on the prohibition of public gatherings.
“The requirement on capacity with respect to gathering for wedding, baptismal, and burial. We won’t conclude who’s the barangay official responsible for that activity. But definitely, we are a government of laws and of rules, as acting mayor, the EOC (Emergency Operations Center) and the police knows… No sacred cows,” he said in mixed English and Cebuano.
In a separate statement posted on social media, Rama said the past Christmas holidays should be a “big lesson to learn” that if the people gather in huge groups during parties and disregard the minimum health protocols, Covid-19 cases would surely spike. “Many thought it was over, or at least on a downtrend. We got complacent and took off our guards… feel that, as a community, even as a nation, we have yet to achieve some level of resilience when consciousness for others needs to be ingrained in our minds in the way we conduct ourselves outside,” the acting mayor said as he stressed the importance of adherence to “Oplan Puyo” (operations plan stay at home) beyond the month of September.
Councilor Joel Garganera, who heads the EOC, reported that Covid-19 has slowed down in the capital city, with only 38 new cases logged on Sunday.The total number of active cases here is 2,011.
The daily positivity rate on Sunday was low at 6 percent, Garganera also said.
He attributed the gains in the battle against coronavirus to the “effort of the convergence” led by the EOC, as he cited the intensified visibility of uniformed police in the barangays to quell violations in the protocols.
Garganera also reminded village officials of the conduct of political campaigning in their areas and advised them to monitor possible violations of the health protocols. “If you can recall, big countries like India and the US blamed the spike of Covid-19 cases in political gatherings. Many died because they tested positive after political gatherings. These lessons are what we need in order to adhere to the protocols,” the city official said. (PNA)