In Pangasinan town, ECQ goes ‘extreme’ after 2 more health workers infected

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—Two more health workers were found positive for SARS Cov2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, in the town of Agno, prompting authorities there to implement what they called extreme enhanced community quarantine (EECQ).

The EECQ would prevail from midnight of June 9 until midnight of June 13. No one at home would be allowed to leave whether they have quarantine passes or not.

The new infections brought to four the number of COVID-19 cases in Agno.

In a statement, the local COVID-19 task force said the EECQ would allow health workers to hunt for other infected persons through contact tracing.

The two new infected health workers, said the task force, were an ambulance driver from a village called Poblacion East and the other was a rescue team member from the village of Bangan Oda. Both have no symptoms.

Agno’s earlier COVID-19 patients were a 53-year-old jail officer and another ambulance driver who is 54-years-old. Both are from Poblacion East.

The town’s health care workers were tested by the provincial health office.

Residents would have only June 8 to go to the market as it would be closed form June 9 to June 11 for disinfection. Earlier, the Agno government had set a schedule to go to market—6 a.m. to 10 a.m.—with only one household member allowed to go out.

Edited by TSB