BAGUIO CITY –– The city’s grocers are developing rolling stores that would be deployed to 128 barangays to keep residents indoors until a Luzon lockdown imposed by President Duterte lapses on April 12.
“Next week will be crucial because of food,” said Mayor Benjamin Magalong during a Friday (March 20) news conference. Family food packs from the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the city’s social welfare office are meant for Baguio’s poorest families and families who lost their jobs or livelihood due to the quarantine, he said.
The city’s groceries have stock for three weeks and have ordered fresh supplies for the rolling stores that will serve 12 districts, each composed of a cluster of five to 8 barangays.
The rolling stores are designed to keep people indoors.
Both Magalong and the Baguio City Police Office have been concerned about the volume of people who leave their houses each day to buy food or medicine along downtown Baguio.