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(Eagle News) — There are so far 605 areas under a granular lockdown, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, of these areas, 384 are in Cordillera, 130 in Ilocos, 77 in Cagayan, eight in Mimaropa, and six in the National Capital Region. Over 1,000, or 1,233 people were affected by the lockdowns. It is the local government unit that decides whether to impose granular lockdowns on a specific house, compound or street, […]
(Eagle News) — Over 800 areas in the country are under a granular lockdown, according to the Philippine National Police. The PNP said of the total 884 areas, 406 were in Cordillera, 292 in Ilocos, and 152 in Cagayan. There are 14 areas in the National Capital Region that are under a granular lockdown and 12 in Zamboanga. Eight areas in Mimaropa, meanwhile, are under granular lockdown. The PNP said 2,359 people have been affected […]
(Eagle News) — The number of areas under a granular lockdown in the Philippines has increased to 844. According to the Philippine National Police, as of Wednesday, of the 844, 233 were in the National Capital Region (NCR), 210 in Cordillera, 203 in Cagayan, 165 in Ilocos, 18 in Mimaropa, and 15 in Western Visayas. The PNP said 2,083 people have been affected by the granular lockdowns. The Department of Health has said there was […]
(Eagle News)– There are so far 100 areas under a granular lockdown in Metro Manila, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, the lockdowns in 65 barangays were imposed on 48 houses, 25 residential buildings, 16 subdivisions or villages, seven streets, and four residential building floors. The PNP said it has deployed 363 personnel and 410 force multipliers to those areas. Earlier, the government said it would be up to the local government […]
(Eagle News) — Balitalakayan interviews Marikina Mayor Marcelino “Marcy” Teodoro who explains the importance of intensified contact tracing, granular lockdowns and vaccination of the population amid the entry of the highly infectious and dangerous Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. Mayor Teodoro also notes the importance of intensified biosurveillance in local governments, where clustering of cases are monitored and the samples submitted to the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) which would analyze and detect the presence […]
