INSPECTION. Sagay City Mayor Alfredo Marañon III (center) inspects stores and markets in the northern Negros city earlier this week. On Wednesday (March 18, 2020), the mayor prohibited students from going to Internet stations and similar establishments as classes in all levels have been suspended amid the threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). (Photo courtesy of Sagay City Information and Tourism Office)
BACOLOD CITY – The City of Sagay in Negros Occidental has prohibited students from going to Internet stations and similar establishments as classes in all levels have been suspended in the northern city amid the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
“No students shall be allowed in any Internet café or computer shops during the relevant period of class suspension,” Mayor Alfredo Marañon III said in Executive Order (EO) 12, series of 2020 released on Wednesday afternoon.
The new order includes the supplemental guidelines on the suspension of classes in all levels in both private and public schools in the northern Negros city, as stated in EO 11 issued by Marañon on March 16.
He said reports that have reached his office “seem to indicate that students are taking undue advantage of the suspension of classes as an opportunity to flock to Internet cafés, computer shops and the like, thus, defeating the noble purpose of the order.”
Marañon directed the Business Permit and Licensing Office and the Economic Enterprise and Management Office, along with the police and other enforcement units, to inform all Internet shops and computer establishments to strictly enforce the order.
Meanwhile, he also urged all Sagaynons who have traveled outside Negros Occidental to subject themselves to home quarantine and follow safety procedures to help ensure that the city is free of Covid-19.
“The local government unit is doing its best to monitor the people coming in and going out of the city, " Marañon said.
As of 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sagay City has recorded a total of 303 persons under monitoring (PUMs) and two patients under investigation (PUIs).
According to the city’s public health advisory, most of the identified PUMs and PUIs arrived in Negros Occidental after the community quarantine was enforced in Metro Manila last week. (PNA)
