(Eagle News)–A lawmaker in the House of Representatives said government should extend the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon for a month.
Caloocan Rep. Edgar Erice said science and common sense based on the experiences of other countries should prompt the government to do this, noting that the gains of the ongoing 30-day ECQ would be useless if no extension is made.
He said the number of cases also increases day by day.
“I have been to more [than] hundred villages in my city the past two weeks and I am afraid that if COVID-19 reaches these areas all hell will break loose,” Erice added.
He said the government should also mobilize all its resources to ensure that poor and lower-middle-class families will have adequate food supply amid the ECQ, which is so far expected to end on April 13.
He said the local government should also reallocate their funds for community development and special activities to food and medical supply and acquire all the necessary facilities when worse comes to worse.
“These are the least we can do to protect our citizenry as we are in a war against a very invisible powerful enemy,” Erice said.
Earlier, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said the decision to lift, extend or expand the ECQ would depend on the Inter-agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases technical working group led by the Department of Health.
