Another Cebu City village faces lockdown due to new confirmed COVID-19 case

CEBU CITY –– Another densely populated village here may be placed on lockdown after a resident was confirmed to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

City Mayor Edgardo Labella said on Tuesday that one of the six new cases in the city is from A. Lopez Street in Barangay Labangon.

“We are looking into (the possibility) of putting Labangon on lockdown,” said Labella.

The five other cases were from Sitio Zapatera, Barangay Luz, which had been on 14-day lockdown since April 12, after three residents tested positive of COVID-19.

Labella has ordered health officers to bring all the COVID-19 patients from their respective villages to the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) for quarantine.

Labella said all new cases were asymptomatic.

“I already directed the City Health Office and the task group to inform CCMC that all these additional six patients will be brought to our isolation chambers in CCMC,” said Labella.

On Tuesday, the Cebu City Health Department conducted mass testing in Luz and Labangon, two of the densely populated villages in the city. The results came in today, April 14.

Labella said Zapatera would continue to be on lockdown to avoid the spread of COVID-19.

Edited by LZB