LOCKDOWN. Covid team spokesperson Jeck Conlu said on Wednesday (Jan. 19, 2022) the implementation of granular lockdown in selected areas in Iloilo City could help arrest its increasing Covid-19 cases. Since the start of the year, the city has implemented the lockdown in at least 17 barangays.(PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY - The implementation of granular lockdowns in selected areas of Iloilo City will help arrest the rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Granular lockdown has been imposed in selected areas from the city's 17 barangays with two or more Covid-19 cases, said Jeck Conlu, spokesperson for the Iloilo City Covid team, in an interview on Wednesday. "It is possible that the number will increase if there are local transmissions. The areas, sitio (zones), compound or houses are locked down while we are conducting contact tracing, swabbing and isolation," he said. He said the move is necessary so that once they found out that there is local transmission
ON THE RISE. Iloilo City has been recording an increase in Covid-19 infections. As a precautionary measure, three areas in three barangays in the city will be placed under granular lockdown from 5:59 p.m. on Friday (Jan. 14, 2022) until January 17.(Photo courtesy of Iloilo City Government) ILOILO CITY - The city government has imposed a granular lockdown on selected areas in three barangays here for having at least two cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). "According to the reverse transcription - polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results from Jan. 12, 2022 until Jan. 14, 2022, there are three barangays/areas with at least two and continuously increasing number of confirmed positive Covid-19 cases," Mayor Jerry P. Trenas said in Executive Order 007 that he signed on Friday. The order noted that one boarding house in Barangay Baybay Tanza, and one house each in barangays Zamora Mellisa and Veterans Village will be on lockdown effective 5:59 p.m. on Friday unt