Locally Stranded Individuals returning to Negros Occidental are again barred to do so, just for a week.
This after the Regional Inter Agency Task Force has approved the request of Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson for a one week moratorium on the return of Locally Stranded Individuals (LSIs) to Negros Occidental, starting Oct. 3 to 9.
The congestion and non-availability of quarantine facilities due to the immense influx of Returning Overseas Filipinos and LSIs has prompted Lacson to request for a moratorium in the arrival of LSIs.
While it approved the suspension of LSIs return to Negros Occidental, however, LSIs bound for Bacolod City and other local government units will remain unhampered and may enter through the Bacolod-Silay airport, RIATF COVID-19 chairperson Juan Jovian Ingeniero said in a resolution approved by RIATF.
Ingeniero said that it will be lifted after the weeklong g moratorium ends.
Lacson, in his letter to RIATF, said the moratorium will allow them to decongest and disinfect the quarantine facilities to accommodate the new batch of incoming Returning Overseas Filipinos and LSIs.
But the quarantine facilities of Bacolod City are back to 100 percent capacity due to travel ban imposed from Sept. 9 to 30, after the city was placed under the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine status, according to Councilor Cindy Rojas. Rojas, in her letter to Lacson, who chairs the Action Team on Non OFW Returning Residents, said Bacolod City is now willing to accept the entry of LSIs by air and sea travel from Oct. 1 onwards.* BB
