4 villages in Cagayan town to be placed under ECQ due to spike in COVID-19 cases

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TUGUEGARAO CITY—Four villages in Baggao town in Cagayan province will be placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) beginning Sunday after a spike in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases was recorded.

Baggao Mayor Joan Dunuan said Saturday that those villages that will be under a seven-day lockdown were Alba, Barsaet East, Bitag Grande and Tallang as approved by the COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force. The villages will be under ECQ, the most stringent form of community quarantine in the country, from 12:01 a.m. on June 6 and will last until June 12.

The town has 242 active cases with 534 recoveries and 21 deaths, as of Friday, June 4, Baggao health office records showed.

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