Cabanatuan classes suspended to prevent COVID transmission

CABANATUAN CITY –– Classes in all levels, both in public and private, have been suspended indefinitely “to avoid, contain and mitigate the possible transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (CoVID-19),” Mayor Myca Elizabeth Vergara ordered on Saturday (March 14).

Vergara issued Executive Order No. 2020-005 on Friday (March 13) in the wake of a State of Public Health Emergency declared by President Duterte this week.

Vergara said the city government shall periodically evaluate Cabanatuan’s health situation before it allows schools to resume classes.

This city’s universities draw students from as far as northern and eastern Luzon.

In Jaen town, Nueva Ecija, Mayor Sylvia Austria said she planned to issue rules that would prevent the hoarding of basic goods following an emergency meeting with members of the municipal disaster risk reduction and management council on Friday (March 13).

Jaen Councilor Sylvester Austria said checkpoints would be set up in all 27 villages to monitor the entry and exit of people, especially visitors and returning overseas Filipino workers.

These checkpoints, he said, are tasked only to secure vital information that would enable health workers to conduct backtracing in the event of a COVID infection./lzb