13 QC barangays under extreme ECQ due to COVID-19 spike

Thirteen barangays in Quezon City are under extreme enhanced community quarantine due to rising COVID-19 cases.

As of Wednesday, March 25, Quezon City recorded 3 more deaths, bringing the total to 13, and 15 new cases, raising the total to 87.

Quezon City has the highest number of coronavirus cases recorded in any local government unit, with 50 out of its 142 barangays recording cases.

Barangay Culiat was newly placed under extreme enhanced community quarantine, joining 12 other barangays.

A barangay is placed under extreme enhanced community quarantine if it has two or more confirmed cases in different streets or at least one case in an urban poor area where the risk of transmission is more likely.

Residents in these barangays are subject to strict measures, including restrictions on leaving residences for household members of patients and surveillance within a 500-meter radius of infected households.

Quezon City Police District has established checkpoints to ensure the strict implementation of community quarantine and social distancing measures in these areas.