The implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Iloilo City is extended to April 30, 2020.
Mayor Jerry Treñas announced the extension on Tuesday evening, April 7.
The city has been placed under ECQ or lockdown since March 20 to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The implementation is supposed to end on April 14.
Treñas, in a video uploaded on his official Facebook page, said he came up with the decision after “due consultion with the doctors, our City Health Office (CHO), our focal person [on COVID-19], the Department of Health (DOH), and some businessmen in the city.”
The mayor said he would sign the executive order (EO) extending the ECQ on Wednesday, April 8.
In Iloilo province, there is no final decision has been made yet on whether or not to extend the province-wide ECQ.
Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. said he is still in the consultation process.
The province currently has 13 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the highest in the whole Western Visayas region.
On Tuesday morning, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles confirmed that President Rodrigo Duterte approved the extension of the Luzon-wide ECQ until April 30.IMT
