NO Q-PASS. Policemen issue citation tickets to residents caught going out of their residence without the required quarantine pass on Wednesday (Nov. 3, 2021). The city police strengthened the inspection of quarantine passes as Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar urged Zamboangueños to make the ongoing battle against Covid-19 a personal responsibility. (Photo courtesy of Zamboanga CIO)
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar on Wednesday called on the people here to consider the continuing fight against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) as their personal responsibility, as the battle against the deadly virus shifts from hospitals to households.
Salazar made the call citing the city government is also doing its best in addressing the problems brought about by the pandemic.
“The fight against Covid-19 is not in the hospitals anymore. It is in the households or the houses,” she said.
“That is why we are imposing granular lockdown on households, compounds, or streets where there are positive cases to prevent them from further spreading the infections to others outside of their homes or communities,” the mayor added.
Salazar said they have noted that the active cases of Covid-19 in this city have remained over the 2,000 mark even during this period of modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ).
The Covid-19 data tracker showed that this city recorded a total of 21,030 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with 17,825 recoveries, 2,252, active cases, and 953 deaths, as of November 1.
Of the total active cases, 2,234 were acquired through community transmission, while the remaining cases include eight authorized persons outside residence (APORs), four persons deprived of liberty (PDL), four detainees, and two Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) personnel.
The data tracker also showed that 73.2 percent of the active cases are asymptomatic; 19.9 percent, mild; 3.9 percent, severe; 2.7 percent, moderate, and 0.3 percent, critical.
“Please stay in your homes, observe the strict minimum public health standards and make it a personal responsibility to lower the cases,” Salazar said.
Meanwhile, the mayor has ordered Dr. Elmeir Jade Apolinario, city disaster management office chief, to make sure 3,000 beds are available in isolation facilities to cope with the number of Covid-19 patients needing isolation.
“Our target is to lower the cases by ensuring (availability of) more isolation facilities, aggressive vaccination rollout, sufficient medical oxygen supply in the hospitals, and implementation of household bubble strategy,” she said. (PNA)
