DAVAO CITY – The curfew and liquor ban will not be lifted anytime soon even after the city government of Davao eased some coronavirus disease (COVID-19) quarantine protocols, Mayor Sara Duterte said.
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Photo by Ryan Ang March 16, 2021 DESPITE easing some quarantine restrictions, the Davao City Government is not lifting the implementation of the curfew and 24-hour liquor ban anytime soon.
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said on Monday, March 15, that lifting the curfew and liquor ban would encourage mass gathering, which could cause an uptick in the transmission of the Covid-19 virus.
The mayor said this was based on the previous experience of the city when the curfew and liquor ban were lifted in the middle of the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) from July to mid-November 2020. [Lifting the] liquor ban and curfew, based on our experience kaniadto (before) when we removed that during the [MGCQ], naga-encourage siya sa mga people nga magtapok (it encouraged people to gather), Duterte-Carpio said in an interview on 87.5 FM Davao City Disaster Radio.
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File photo March 16, 2021 THE City Government of Davao temporarily suspended the implementation of Food and Medicine (FM) pass effective 12:01 a.m. of March 15, 2021.
This is one of the salient points of the recently-released Executive Order (EO) 12 Series of 2021, which updated the city’s Covid-19 protocols.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said in an interview on 87.5 FM Davao City Disaster Radio on March 15, 2021 that this is to align the city’s quarantine guidelines to the national Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases.
“Base ni sa discussion sa Task Force, to avoid confusion sa mga tao, maong atong gi-align sa IATF national guidelines (This is based on the city’s Covid-19 Task Force to avoid confusion from the public. We aligned our protocols according to the existing guidelines of the IATF),” she said.
March 14, 2021 ONE of the major effects that the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic brought upon us is the rapid adoption of digital technologies in our day-to-day activities. Many industries were devastated by the pandemic and many found themselves unprepared for the new normal. Digital payments and e-commerce solutions were almost non-existent for basic necessities pre-pandemic, John Naranjo, chief executive officer of Ingenuity, said in an online interview with SunStar Davao.
However, when the pandemic struck and progressed on, many local businesses and institutions saw the need to integrate digital solutions to ensure that they continue to operate. Digital transformation has picked up significantly because of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in e-commerce, logistics for small parcels, payment gateways, call center services, IT and business process outsourcing. Online freelance work continues to be in demand, lawyer Samuel R. Matunog, ICT Davao p
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File photo March 14, 2021 The Safe Davao QR (DQR) Code is ready to be integrated into the national government s proposed unification of all existing contact tracing applications in the country.
Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) head and DQR Implementation supervisor Lemuel Ortonio said they already received a communication from the Department of Information and Communications Technology in November 2020 regarding the planned centralization of the contact tracing system to the StaySafe.ph app.
The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases issued on February 26, 2021, that StaySafe.ph will be the primary contact tracing system, while the Safe, Swift, and Smart Passage (S-PaSS) travel management system will be institutionalized as the one-stop-shop application/communication for travelers.