The local Inter-Agency Task Force on the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is eyeing to allow local business establishments to operate not only on weekdays but even on Sundays.
The move is meant to minimize the number of people who troop to local business establishments on weekdays because a Sunday lockdown remains in effect in the city.
“This is being discussed by the local IATF on Covid-19 and still for finalization,” Dr. Dulce Amor Miravite, city health officer, said Thursday but clarified that only fully vaccinated individuals would be allowed on Sundays.
To prevent the further spread of the virus, local business establishments have been ordered closed to the general public on Sundays since August, except to front-liners.
Miravite said 123,989 individuals have been fully vaccinated since the start of the inoculation in this city in March.
They represent 17.84 percent of the 694,969 target population for inoculation.
Most of the vaccinated individuals, or 53,802 individuals, are persons with comorbidity under the A3 priority group.
The rest of the vaccinated persons are as follows: senior citizens (A2), 30,012; essential workers (A4), 22,528; health care front-liners (A1), 14,888; and, indigents (A5), 2,759.
Source: Philippines News Agency