Three barangays in Manila will be placed under a five-day lockdown owing to the continuing rise of COVID-19 cases within their communities.
Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso earlier directed Manila Barangay Bureau Chief Romeo Bagay to implement an “automatic lockdown” in barangays that register high incidents of COVID infection.
Meanwhile, the Manila City government began vaccinating senior citizen serving as the city’s healthcare workers on Tuesday as another brand of COVID-19 vaccine—AstraZeneca—arrived in the nation’s capital.
Domagoso and Vice Mayor Maria Sheilah Honey Lacuna-Pangan, led the ceremonial vaccination of medical frontliners at the Ospital ng Maynila.
Based on the recommendation of Bagay, Moreno announced that a lockdown will be effected in Barangay 351 in Tayuman, Barangay 699 in the M. Adriatico area and Barangay 725 near Pedro Gil and Taft Avenue.
The lockdown will begin at 12 midnight of March 11 (Thursday) up to 12 midnight of March 15 (Monday).
Due to this, quarantine passes will once again be issued to the residents who will be required to present them if they need to go out of their homes to run important errands like buying food or medicine.
Domagoso directed the Manila Police District to help the city government enforce the lockdowns.