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The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon covers the island of Luzon and its outlying islands, or eight out of seventeen regions of the Philippines. An indefinite enhanced community quarantine, was imposed in Caraga, alternatively known as One Shield Caraga, started on April 7, [39] and in the Davao Region [40] which took effect on April 4. [40]
Mega Ligtas COVID Centers, [1] also known as Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facilities (TTMFs), [2] are temporary non-hospital health facilities or emergency patient care centers established and managed by the Philippine government to accommodate COVID-19 patients at a provincial or regional level as part of its efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
The implementation of an enhanced community quarantine in the Davao Region was announced on April 2, 2020. [89] The quarantine began at 9:00 pm of April 4 and has no scheduled end date. [89] As of April 2, there were already at least 61 confirmed cases in the region, 49 of which were recorded in Davao City. [89]
[2] Travel restrictions reduced the spread of the virus, but because they were first implemented after community spread had established in several countries in distant parts of the world—they produced only a modest reduction in the total number of people infected. Travel restrictions may be most important at the start and end of the pandemic. [3]
The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Philippines was recorded in Metro Manila on January 30, 2020. It involved a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the origin of the disease, who arrived in Manila after travelling to Cebu City and Dumaguete in central Philippines from Hong Kong. [5]
Initially, suspected COVID-19 cases in Central Luzon are tested at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and Lung Center of the Philippines in Metro Manila. The Jose B. Lingad Regional Memorial Hospital in Pampanga was the first facility being prepared as a possible COVID-19 testing center for the region. [ 18 ]