Physical contact banned during grad rites
ILOILO City – Physical contact is prohibited during inperson graduation ceremonies for school year 2021-2022.
This prohibition is a preventive measure against the possible transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among students, parents teachers and guests, said Hernani Escullar, information officer of the Department of Education (DepEd) Region 6.
“Usually mag- end of school year rites naga-beso-beso kita, nagakupo and may yara sang handshake. This time ginadiscourage naton ini,” said Escullar.
On May 10, DepEd released Memorandum Order No. 43, Series of 2022 setting the guidelines in the
eight of the 16mm steel bars had already been removed.
The police station jail was built to accommodate 10 persons only. Currently, however, it has 25 inmates, most of them high-profile drug suspects.
To give additional room to the occupants, the police station allowed the inmates to use hammocks.
Puerto said the inmates could be using the nightly prayer vigil (6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) to drown out the noise generated by the sawing, and the hammocks offered additional cover to the inmates doing the sawing.
Puerto said a thorough search of the cells failed to recover any saw, although cops believed it was smuggled in by the prisoners’ visiting relatives.
In response to the escape attempt, the police station decided t o t emporarily suspend the visitations until further notice.
Relatives of the inmates will still be allowed to bring food, however, this must be surrendered to the desk officer and thoroughly inspected before being handed over to the prisoner.
The hammocks have also been removed from the cell./