The following are what we can expect by Monday, 30 March 2020, as Executive Order No. 26 of Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Executive Order 20-20 of Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Lacson take effect. Please be guided.
Only those with Household Quarantine Passes are allowed to buy food and other necessitiesPolice and soldiers will support village officials in imposing EO26Only those with HQPs can do shopping for food and other necessitiesPublic utility jeepneys, taxicabs, Grab, trisikad, tricycles, e-trikesOnly “essential” services like food, medicine, government offices, will be openHuman traffic will be highly regulated but goods and cargo allowed to pass throughThere is no public transport and border control along the way is tightThe sale of fresh produce will continue in the public markets of the cityVillage officials will take charge of the food distribution to the “poorest of the poor”
An amateur cook who has a mean version of humba, the author has recently tried to make mole negra, the Mexican sauce he learned by watching shows of master chef Rick Bayless. A journalist since 19, he has worked in the newsrooms of radio, local papers, and Manila-based news organizations. A stroke survivor, he now serves as executive editor of DNX.
