Part of Apalit village under hard lockdown
APALIT - A portion of Barangay Capalangan in this town was put under hard lockdown due to six active cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Mayor Oscar Tetangco Jr. ordered the 14-day localized enhanced community quaratine in Purok 4 of the said village to contain the spread of virus and allow efficient contact tracing.
According to Tetangco, the additonal five cases are among the kin who had close contact with the 69 year-old patient that first tested positive for Covid-19.
He said the test results of elderly patient were released on June 29, the actual day of town fiesta when the whole village was under six-day lockdown to prevent people from coming to Apung Iru shrine.
"We tested six of the family and relatives of the first patients as part of the initial contact tracing and results turned out positive for five of them," he sai d .
Tetangco assured that the elderly woman was taken into an isolation facility immediately after her results came in.
A barangay-wide disinfection and continuous contact-tracing are now being conducted to see if there are other individuals who may have interacted with the patients.
The mayor asked residents to immediately report to the local government if they or their families show symptoms of the disease, especially if they had recent contact with the newly-infected per sons.
The recent development brings the total number of Covid-19 confirmed cases of this municipality to nine with one mortality and two recoveries.