BALANGA CITY — The National Inter-Agency Task Force Against Covid–19 has placed the entire province of Bataan under Alert Level 2 from Nov. 15 – 30, 2021.
On the start Monday of the new alert level, the loosening in restrictions have been observed in malls and fast food chains.
More dine-in customers were admitted in the restaurants while children for the first time were allowed inside malls.
Under Alert Level 2, eateries are permitted to accept 50 percent indoor venue capacity for fully vaccinated individuals and 18 years old and below, even not vaccinated. A 70 percvent outdoor venue capacity is also accepted.
Children have been disallowed in malls and fast foods since the pandemic hit the province in March 2020 until Nov. 14, 2021, end of Alert Level 3 that started Nov. 1.
However, social distancing, registration of all entering the fast food chains and malls and taking of body temperature are still strictly imposed.
“Ang pagluluwag na ito sa mga alituntunin sa ating komunidad ay nagpapatunay lamang na patuloy na bumababa ang bilang ng mga kaso ng coronavirus disease sa ating lalawigan kung kaya’t mas lalo pa nating isabuhay ang pagsunod sa mga minimum health protocols upang mapanatili ang mababang kaso ng Covid-19 sa ating probinsya,” Gov. Albert Garcia appealed.
The governor asked those in priority groups A1 – A5 to undergo vaccination to have added protection and avoid infecting one another.
He announced that as of Saturday, those who tested positive of the virus reached 29,300 with 291 active cases after 11 new confirmed cases were listed.
Thirty-one new recoveries were recorded that caused the number of those who recovered to 27,824.
Total number of deaths rose to 1,185 with the addition of one new casualty, a 65-year-old man from Samal town.
