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The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon covers the island of Luzon and its outlying islands, or eight out of seventeen regions of the Philippines. An indefinite enhanced community quarantine, was imposed in Caraga, alternatively known as One Shield Caraga, started on April 7, [39] and in the Davao Region [40] which took effect on April 4. [40]
Regional quarantines [a]; Region [b] Island group Start date [c] Est. pop. [d] Metro Manila Luzon: March 17, 2020 13,600,000 Cordillera 1,800,000 Ilocos Region 5,200,000
The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon was a series of stay-at-home orders and cordon sanitaire measures implemented by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on the island of Luzon and its associated islands.
The task force is composed of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and Barangay tanods. To be able to respond to more localized issues and concerns, Regional Inter-Agency Task Force in their respective regions were organized.
The implementation of an enhanced community quarantine in the Davao Region was announced on April 2, 2020. [9] The quarantine began at 9 pm of April 4 [9] and is scheduled to end on April 19. [10] As of April 2, there were already at least 61 confirmed cases in the region, 49 of which were recorded in Davao City. [9]
On April 14, 2020, the Philippines' national government began "progressive mass testing" for COVID-19 [90] after it received "tens of thousands of testing kits" from various donor countries, [91] and SARS-COV-2 test kits produced by the University of the Philippines' Philippine Genome Center became available. [92]
Initially, suspected COVID-19 cases in Central Luzon are tested at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and Lung Center of the Philippines in Metro Manila. The Jose B. Lingad Regional Memorial Hospital in Pampanga was the first facility being prepared as a possible COVID-19 testing center for the region. [ 18 ]
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