LAMUT, Ifugao – The local government unit here continues to strengthen its guard against the spread of the Covid-19 by tightening border controls and establishing more quarantine facilities for its returning residents.
Mayor Mariano Buyagawan, Jr., during the #LagingHandaPH Network Briefing, said the municipality is still implementing the 14-day quarantine for incoming residents as the town recorded an overseas worker with a negative result swab test in Manila but tested positive when she came home.
“Inuulit namin kahit natapos nila ang 14-day quarantine talagang i-quarantine pa rin natin kasi nga po may experience na kami na nag-positive rin kahit nag-negative ang swab test nila sa Maynila,” Buyagawan said.
The mayor said schools that have been earlier used as isolation areas have to be vacated in preparation for the school opening and the quarantine area that the LGU established is already occupied due to the influx of returning residents.
“We only have one quarantine facility at the Tourism Village so we converted the Lamut Trading Post and the agricultural booths of the 18 barangays into quarantine areas,” he said.
At the height of the enhanced community quarantine, Buyagawan allowed the use of the unfinished trading post as drop-off point of products of farmers from neighboring towns as they cannot go outside the province to sell their products.
Traders from Nueva Vizcaya buy agricultural products at the Lamut trading post.
Lamut is the gateway to Ifugao from Region 2.
Aside from the national highway, there are two alternate roads from nearby Nueva Vizcaya.
Buyagawan said he ordered a temporary closure of the alternate roads leading to the province so that all travelers pass at the border quarantine checkpoint at the Lamut Bridge.
The town has three Covid-19 cases with the first two cases already recovered. – Marcelo B. Lihgawon
