President Rodrigo Duterte announced tonight, December 28, that Bacolod City and Negros Island will remain under Modified General Community Quarantine in January.
Metro Manila, the provinces of Davao del Norte, Batangas, Isabela and Lanao del Sur, and the cities of Santiago, Iloilo, Tacloban, Iligan, and Davao will remain under General Community Quarantine, he said.
The rest of the country will be under the more lenient MGCQ.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia earlier today said he expected Bacolod City to retain its MGCQ status in January with its daily COVID-19 cases having dropped to single digits.
Bacolod’s new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday were 7, Thursday – 4, Friday – 4, Saturday -1, Sunday – 0, and today – 1, the Department of Health reported.
The city’s active COVID-19 cases were also down to 74 today, the DOH reported.
But they are keeping a close watch on the COVID-19 cases in the next two weeks because of the holiday gatherings, he said.
Leonardia said curfew in Bacolod City in all likelihood will also be back to 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. in January, from midnight to 3 a.m. during the holidays.
Meanwhile, Leonardia convened the Bacolod City CoVac (COVID-19 Vaccination) Council today at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) headquarters at the Bacolod City Government Center.
The council was created to set up a roadmap for providing Bacolodnons access to coronavirus vaccines “at the soonest possible time, he said.
“We started to assign people to certain duties,” he said.*