DAVAO CITY - The local government of Jose Abad Santos (JAS) town in Davao Occidental has extended the temporary precautionary lockdown in its two barangays until October 16 to curb the surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In a public post on Monday, Mayor Jason John Joyce said the municipality deemed it proper to curtail the movement of people by enforcing a total lockdown in Barangay Caburan Big and Barangay Caburan Small. It can be recalled that on October 3, Joyce issued Executive Order (EO) 21-020 placing the two barangays under a one-week lockdown from October 4 to October 9. In his latest EO 21-022, Joyce stressed the need to extend the lockdown and further control the Covid-19 cases in their town because the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), the Covid referral hospital of Davao Occidental, already has full occupancy of its Covid-19 beds. He added that the municipality is currently experiencing a surge, with 392 total confirmed cases, 136 cases of which are act
DAVAO CITY - The local government of Jose Abad Santos (JAS) town in Davao Occidental has extended the temporary precautionary lockdown in its two barangays until October 16 to curb the surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In a public post on Monday, Mayor Jason John Joyce said the municipality deemed it proper to curtail the movement of people by enforcing a total lockdown in Barangay Caburan Big and Barangay Caburan Small. It can be recalled that on October 3, Joyce issued Executive Order (EO) 21-020 placing the two barangays under a one-week lockdown from October 4 to October 9. In his latest EO 21-022, Joyce stressed the need to extend the lockdown and further control the Covid-19 cases in their town because the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), the Covid referral hospital of Davao Occidental, already has full occupancy of its Covid-19 beds. He added that the municipality is currently experiencing a surge, with 392 total confirmed cases, 136 cases of which are act
(Photo courtesy of Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental LGU) DAVAO CITY - Some two barangays in Jose Abad Santos (JAS) town in Davao Occidental were placed under lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the said town. In Executive Order No. 21-020 released on Sunday night, acting mayor James John Joyce ordered the lockdown of Barangays Caburan Big and Caburan Small. The lockdown is from Monday to 11:59 p.m. of October 9. "There is a need to control the Covid-19 cases in JAS because of the full occupancy of the Covid-19 beds in the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC), the Covid referral hospital of Davao Occidental," Joyce said in the EO. The municipality is currently experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases, with 78 active infections out of a total of 392 confirmed cases as of September 30. "The municipality deems it proper to curtail the movement of people by ordering and enforcing total lockdown in Barangay Caburan Big and Barangay