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Borongan City under 2-day border lockdown
Borongan City Mayor Jose Ivan Dayan Agda has ordered a 48-hour hard border lockdown from August 8-10 to allow for disease surveillance and contact tracing following new COVID-19 cases in Eastern Samar.
All travel to and from Borongan City is temporarily prohibited, with exceptions only for essential goods and services providers who must strictly adhere to health protocols.
Individuals exempted from the lockdown must undergo triage and present a medical certificate and travel authority.
The province's five new cases include four locally stranded individuals (LSIs) from Metro Manila and Laguna, and a close contact of a confirmed patient.
These new cases are from the towns of Lawaan, Llorente, Arteche, and General MacArthur.
Three of the new cases are confined in their respective local government isolation units, one is at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center, and another is at the Eastern Samar Provincial Hospital in Borongan.
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