Rolly Cruz, head of the Quezon City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (QCESU), said they will conduct intensified testing and monitoring in these areas to ensure that they are COVID-free after the 14-day quarantine period ends. Kimpo assured the residents of the high-risk areas in the five barangays that the city government will provide them with food and other assistance.ĭr. Since the containment of the virus is a primary concern, Kimpo said the city government will further strengthen its community-based testing and quarantine efforts. He said the QCHD will focus on densely populated locations where COVID-19 transmission is most likely to occur. In preventing the spread of COVID-19, Kimpo said another major area of concern is the high density population of places where quarantine protocols are neglected. These high risk areas may be a block, street, or compound within the aforementioned barangays, Kimpo said. Instead of a total lockdown on the whole barangay, Kimpo said the city government will focus on the high-risk areas of each of these barangays where clustering of COVID-19 cases are numerous.
However, the city government has yet to identify the high-risk areas in the five barangays.Īssistant City Administrator for Operations Alberto Kimpo said these areas were initially chosen by the Quezon City Health Department (QCHD) based on the results of community-based testing it conducted through its Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (ESU). The Quezon City government on Tuesday said that initially the SCL will be enforced in high-risk areas in barangays Bahay Toro, Culiat, Sauyo, Batasan Hills, and Tatalon.Īs of May 11, Barangay Culiat has the highest number of COVID-19 cases with 37, followed by Barangays Batasan Hills, 29 Bahay Toro, 21 Sauyo, 19 and Tatalon, 17. on Wednesday (May 13) for having the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases in the city. Rolly Cruz from the city's Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit also said 10 passengers onboard the flight of the patient are being traced since they are all residents in the city.Twenty areas in five Quezon City (QC) barangays will be placed under the 14-day special concern lockdown (SCL) starting 5 a.m. The medical workers who came in contact with the patient will also be isolated.ĭr. The patient's girlfriend will take another swab test as a precautionary measure even after she tested negative for COVID-19 upon arrival. Local officials quarantined the patient's family and they will undergo RT-PCR tests. His test result was reviewed by the Philippine Genome Center. He tested positive in the swab test after he returned to the Philippines on January 7. He also tested negative upon arrival in the Gulf state. He was negative for COVID-19 on December 25 before his flight to Dubai. He lives in Kamuning with his girlfriend, mother, and two siblings.
The 29-year-old male real estate agent is the country's first case of the more transmissible COVID-19 variant. She then appealed to the national government to add the UAE in the list of travel restrictions. It is not an indication that it's not in other parts of the country by now," Bemonte said. "While there's so much attention given to Quezon City because Quezon City has the first variant, it is just coincidental that he happens to reside in Kamuning. The United Arab Emirates, where the patient came from, has not reported cases of any emerging variant. Only the positive COVID-19 test results of travelers from areas with confirmed coronavirus variants are sent to the Philippine Genome Center for review. She said more proof is needed to consider the patient as an isolated case since his sample was tested at random. Huwag po sana natin i-zero in on Kamuning lamang because that is exactly what we're trying to prevent - discrimination of a community, which has no basis whatsoever in science," said Mayor Joy Belmonte in a media briefing, referring to a barangay. "Kamuning is not in any way more risky than any other part of this country. Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 14) - Strict quarantine rules will not be imposed in the residential area of the first Filipino infected with the new COVID-19 variant, Quezon City officials said on Thursday.
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