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Southern Leyte town lifts ECQ in virus-hit village

By Gerico Sabalza

July 1, 2020, 7:51 pm

<p><strong>COVID-19 WATCH</strong>. A police officer checks motorists entering Libagon, Southern Leyte in this undated photo. The local government of Libagon lifted the enhanced community quarantine in Nahulid village on Wednesday (July 1, 2020) days after it was imposed on June 19, to trace those who had contact with the two residents who tested positive for coronavirus disease. <em>(File photo courtesy of Libagon police station)</em></p>

COVID-19 WATCH. A police officer checks motorists entering Libagon, Southern Leyte in this undated photo. The local government of Libagon lifted the enhanced community quarantine in Nahulid village on Wednesday (July 1, 2020) days after it was imposed on June 19, to trace those who had contact with the two residents who tested positive for coronavirus disease. (File photo courtesy of Libagon police station)

TACLOBAN CITY – The local government of Libagon in Southern Leyte has lifted the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Nahulid village, where two residents tested positive for coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

In an advisory issued on Wednesday, Mayor Sabina Ranque said the ECQ was to give its local response team enough time to trace those who had contact with the town’s positive patients.

“Our municipal contact tracing team is already done finding all individuals who might have direct or indirect contact with the patients and have already undergone the confirmatory testing,” she added.

The local government placed the community under enhanced quarantine on June 19 through Executive No. 26 to prevent the potential spread or transmission of the disease.

To date, the town has 17 confirmed cases: 13 admitted in their local isolation facilities and four at Salvacion Oppus Yniguez Memorial Provincial Hospital in Maasin City.

Of the town’s total cases, 11 are locally stranded individuals (LSIs), two are overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), and four are close contacts of positive patients.

“We are now waiting for the results of the repeat test of our 12 positive patients,” Ranque said.

Since the pandemic outbreak in the country, Eastern Visayas has confirmed a total of 532 cases, including 222 recoveries and three deaths, according to the Department of Health (DOH).

Most of the confirmed cases in the region are returning residents-- 324 LSIs, 48 OFWs, and three Balik Probinsya Balik Pag-asa program beneficiaries.

The remaining 157 are local cases, the DOH said. (PNA)

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