COTABATO CITY – All streets here turned empty last Sunday when the city government started enforcing its “no-movement day” as an added measure to quell the transmission of the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease.
Only vehicles ferrying anti-COVID-19 frontline workers, police patrol cars and military KM 450 light trucks were seen moving in the streets as authorized under the executive order issued last week by City Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, chairperson of the inter-agency city disaster risk reduction management council
The local directive mandated every Sunday as “no-movement day” among all residents in the city’s 37 barangays as well as non-essential travellers.
Members of the city police office and their counterparts from Bangsamoro Autonomous Region as well as the personnel of the Philippine Marine Corps based in the city have jointly enforced the measure.
Barangay tanods were seen helping prevent villagers from coming out of in the streets last Sunday, even as media entities here affirmed that officials of the regional autonomous government here seemed cooperative with the city hall initiative. (Ali G. Macabalang)