
Mayor issues alert level EO pending downgrade appeal
Mayor Evelio Leonardia has issued an executive order placing Bacolod City under Alert Level 4 while waiting for an answer to his appeal before the national Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for a downgrade to Alert Level 3, Em Ang, Emergency Operations Center executive director, said Monday, November 1.She said Health Regional Director Adriano Subaan, in a teleconference Monday morning, assured that he would favorably endorse to the IATF the city’s request for a downgrade.It appears that the classification of Bacolod under Alert Level 4 was made based on previous data, she said, pointing out that COVID-19 cases and hospital occupancy in the city have been dropping.In fact, the Department of Health in Western Visayas has classified Bacolod City under COVID-19 Alert Level 3, she sai...









