BONTOC, Mountain Province – Mayor Franklin Odsey here has tested for COVID-19.
In a message in the municipality’s social media account, Odsey said: “It is (with a) heavy heart that I inform you of the positive result of my RT-PCR (real time-polymerase chain reaction) test which I received today, Jan. 15.”
“I am asymptomatic and my doctors are closely monitoring my situation while I am in isolation. The members of my households, as well as my staff, are on self-quarantine. They will be subjected to RT-PCR tests (in) the next few days,” Odsey said.
Odsey urged all persons he had close contact with in the past 14 days to coordinate the Municipal Health Office for contact tracing and to go on self-quarantine.
Due to a surge in the incidence of the virus, Odsey issued an executive order Friday temporarily suspending the conduct of Masses and eucharistic celebrations for all religious denominations; the conduct of face-to-face classes, examinations, seminars, or symposia, including government-sponsored activities, and the like.
Odsey also suspended the solemnization of civil weddings in the municipality effective Monday.
He also issued an executive order placing Barangay Samoki here under critical zone and imposing an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from Jan. 18 to 31. (Zaldy Comanda)
