LAOAG CITY-The city of Candon and three towns in Ilocos Sur are back to modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) status for two weeks starting Friday (October 22) to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In a public advisory in the official Facebook page of Governor Ryan Luis V. Singson, it said that movement restrictions are again in place in Candon City as well as in the municipalities of Narvacan, San Emilio, and Galimuyod after most of the current 1,743 active cases in the province were traced in these areas. "All other local government units will remain under general community quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions until October 31," the advisory said. Since October 18, the entire province has been placed under the least restrictive quarantine classification but due to the presence of the new Covid-19 variants particularly in the said four local government units, it again escalated to MECQ. While under MECQ, only essential travels are per