LAGAWE, Ifugao, Nov. 12(PIA) – – With the expected influx of returning residents for the holiday season, Mayor Martin Habawel, Jr. has issued an advisory on travel restrictions in a bid to minimize the further spread of the COVID-19 in the municipality.
The LGU will implement travel restrictions with a heavy heart, if only to minimize the possibility of virus carriers in the community, Habawel stated.
The mayor informed that starting December 21, 2020, the main quarantine facility of the municipality will be closed for major repairs to address the complaints of quarantined individuals and to increase its occupancy. Thus those who want to spend their Christmas and New Year in the municipality should come earlier than December 6 so they can undergo and finish the 14-day mandatory quarantine period before Dec. 20.
“After December 5, the municipal government will only be accepting a limited number of travelers from outside the province who intend to stay for good in Lagawe. We will prioritize repatriated Overseas Foreign Workers (OFWs) or returning OFWs,” he added.
LGU-Lagawe will not admit travelers from outside the province who intend to stay in the locality after December 10, 2020 unless they have tested negative for Covid-19 in a RT-PCR test whose results were released 24 hours before arrival in the municipality.
Persons coming home without the required negative RT-PCR test will be denied entry. A travel authority with no accompanying negative RT-PCR test will be treated as a pass that is valid only for official transactions in government offices or for business transactions not to exceed 5:00 PM of the day the traveler has arrived in the municipality.
As of November 11, the municipality of Lagawe listed 76 possible cases on quarantine with no suspect, probable and confirmed cases. **JDP/MBL-PIA CAR, Ifugao
