CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The local government here is seeking the escalation of the city’s quarantine level after the unabated spike in COVID-19 cases that threatens to swamp the hospital system. Mayor Oscar Moreno said he is writing a letter to the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) to raise the quarantine level of the entire city to general community quarantine (GCQ) from the current modified GCQ. ADVERTISEMENT“I have no choice but to ask the IATF to raise the quarantine level following the recent increase of COVID-19 cases here,” Moreno told reporters during Thursday’s press briefing. The active cases in the city sprung to 1,085 as of May 27 with 111 new infections recorded by the City Health Office. According to Dr. Jose Llacuna, northern Mindanao health director, Cagayan de Oro accounts for at least a third of total cases in the region.

Source: The Local May 28, 2021 05:18 UTC