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Antique guv OKs home quarantine for LSIs, ROFs

-  By Ime Sornit o

SAN JOSE, Antique – Gov. Rhodora Cadiao allows home quarantine for locally stranded individual­s (LSIs) and returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) in municipali­ties with congested community isolation facilities.

Cadiao issued last Friday, Oct. 16, Executive Order No. 137-A, Series of 2020 amending effective immediatel­y certain provisions of Executive Order No. 137, Series of 2020, also known as “An order extending the implementa­tion of a low risk modified general community quarantine in the Province of Antique.”

“Whereas, there is a need to amend of certain provisions of the said order regarding the management of Returning Overseas Filipinos and Locally Stranded Individual­s,” the EO stated.

EO Number 137-A amended the guidelines in managing LSIs and ROFs, stating, “Depending on the risk assessment of the

Municipal Health Office home quarantine may be allowed for Locally Stranded Individual­s (LSIs) and Returning Overseas Filipinos of municipali­ties with congested Community Isolation Facilities.”

The following are also included in the amended EO:

* every Friday, the eighteen Municipal Inter-Agency Task Forces on COVID- 19 shall submit to the Antique Inter- Agency Task Force on COVID-19 the capacity status of their Community Isolation Facilities

* foods and supplies needed by the Locally Stranded Individual­s and Returning Overseas Filipinos while in Community Isolation Facilities shall be t heir f amilies’ responsibi­lity

* the travel of Locally Stranded Individual­s and Returning Overseas Filipinos to the Port of Caticlan shall be every Monday and Thursday only. Their cargo shall be limited

ROXAS Ci t y – The fifteen kilograms only and province of Capiz got its the same shall be stated in their own containeri­zed RT-PCR Notice of Acceptance. laboratory for coronaviru­s

* persons who are being disease 2019 ( COVID- 19) required to undergo a rapidtest. diagnostic test of RT-PCR test Ca p i z G o v e r n o r for work or for other purposes Esteban Contreras said the shall coordinate with their containeri­zed laboratory Municipal Health Office and the was delivered to the province Provincial Health Office Contact yesterday and it will be Tracing Team. stationed inside the premises

The previous EO No. 137 of Roxas Memorial Provincial contained rules in managing Hospital (RMPH) in Barangay LSIs and ROFs. These were the Lanot here. following: After the installati­on is

completed, the laboratory

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