BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines – The country’s Sugar Bowl will go on an enhanced community quarantine Monday, 30 March 2020, to prevent the spread of the COVID19 inside its borders where more than two million people live.
Tomorrow, a general curfew from 10pm to 4am will be in effect over the province’s 12 cities and 19 towns.
Minors, on the other hand, will have a 24-hour curfew or will not be allowed to go out of their homes.
Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz told DNX the curfew will precede the shutting down of borders next week, a step that might be conducted simultaneously with Oriental Negros though the province has yet to talk to Gov. Roel Degamo.
“A community quarantine will be in effect starting Monday next week,” Diaz said.
Vice-Governor Jeffrey Ferrer, on the other hand, said the province has to ensure first that food supply for the two-week closure will be enough to meet the needs of close to an estimated 600,000 households in the province, according to 2015 census of the PSA.
Diaz, asked by DNX, said they are making sure this will be met.
