세부시, 외출연령제한 완화 조치 수용하지 않을 것

Cebu City EOC not inclined in adopting yet new IATF reso lowering age limit

The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the city’s dedicated anti-coronavirus committee, is not keen on adopting a new resolution that lowered the age limit of people allowed to go outside of their houses.

EOC head and Councilor Joel Garganera made this statement on Friday, January 22, or hours after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) announced that people ages 10 to 65 years old will be permitted in public places in areas under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ).

Garganera said immediately adopting the new rule would be untimely with the city still experiencing a new surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.

“I believe implementing this is untimely… We in the EOC, we strongly oppose for its immediate implementation considering the situation we are in,” said Garganera in Cebuano.

On Friday, the Malacañang announced that it has eased age restrictions in areas under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) as it allowed persons aged 10 to 65 years old to step out of their homes by February 1, 2021.

코로나19관련 세부시 비상운영센터는 외출이 가능한 사람들의 연령 제한을 낮추는 정부의 조치에 반대했다.

가가네라 시의원은 현재 코로나19 사례가 새로운 급증을 보이고 있어 적절하지 않다고 말했다.

앞서 말라카냥 대통령은 궁은 2월 1일부터 10세에서 65세 사이의 사람들이 외출할 수 있도록 MGCQ지역의 외출제한 조치를 완화했다.

그러나 세부 시는 이를 즉각적으로 수용하기보다 먼저 코로나19 증가하는 추세를 통제하면서 좀더 기다릴 것으로 여겨진다.