Since its inception, the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force-7 for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (RIATF7-MEID) has passed a total of 14 resolutions and indorsed them to the National IATF either for its favorable and immediate decision or for information. It also acted on the communications it received from the different local government units in the region.
IATF Resolution No. 34, series of 2020 provides that the regions shall convene their RIATF with the respective regional offices of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as chair and Department of Health Centers for Health Development as co-chair, which shall be a separate and distinct body from the Regional Task Force COVID-19.
The RIATF shall report to the IATF Technical Working Group on matters of appeal for risk classification, with its representatives reporting to their natoonal government agencies.
In Central Visayas, the RIATF7-MEID is chaired by DILG-7Director Leocadio T. Trovela and co-chaired by Department of Health (DOH)-7 Director Jaime S. Bernadas. The DILG-7 likewise provides the RIATF7-MEID Secretariat services.
The members of RIATF7-MEID, who are regional directors of the different national government agencies in Central Visayas, convene and continuously collaborate to regularly monitor the performance across all sectors and develop the appropriate recommendations.
The policy-making body is mandated to process the appeals to impose, lift, or extend a community quarantine in provinces, highly urbanized cities and independent component cities.
It is also tasked to provide concurrence as appropriate to the appeals of provincial governors to impose, lift or extend the community quarantine in component cities and municipalities, as well as of local chief executives of cities and municipalities in their respective barangays.
Considering that its decision-making is highly critical, the RIATF7-MEID takes into account the doubling rate of cases in the particular area, epidemiological curve and health capacity, among others.
It recently adopted the Feasibility Analysis of Syndromic Surveillance Using Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler for Early Detection of Diseases (FASSSTER) as one of its tools to assess the current situation in a locality, in addition to the health parameters for community quarantine classification by the National IATF-MEID Sub-Technical Working Group for Data Analytics.
FASSSTER is a scenario-building tool that can project the growth of COVID-19 cases in a locality given the existing community quarantine conditions and general population mobility. It provides the body the prognoses such as when relaxing the quarantine status in a particular LGU.
Meanwhile, on June 9, the RIATF7-MEID called for its first virtual press conference on the current issues and policies implemented amid this pandemic.
It was attended by members of the RIATF7-MEID, other national government agencies, and print, broadcast and online media. It was moderated by the Philippine Information Agency-7 and facilitated by the RIATF7-MEID Secretariat./GML
RESOLUTIONS PASSED:
Resolution No. 01, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Concurring the Recommendation of the Screening and Validation Committee to the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force – 7 for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases of Risk Reclassification of Lapu-Lapu City and Mandaue City from General Community Quarantine to Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine
Resolution No. 02, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Concurring the Imposition of the Provincial Governor of Cebu, Hon. Gwendolyn F. Garcia, on the Risk Reclassification of the City of Talisay to Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine
Resolution No. 03, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Recommending to the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Risk-Level Reclassification of Cebu City to General Community Quarantine Beginning June 1, 2020 Until June 15, 2020
Resolution No. 04, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Recommending to the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Risk-Level Reclassification of the Province of Cebu to Modified General Community Quarantine
Resolution No. 05, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Enjoining All Local Chief Executives in the Central Visayas Region to Allow Entry of Government Officials and Employees Authorized to Physically Work in their Respective Local Government Units Without Subjecting Them to a 14-Day Quarantine Health Measure
Resolution No. 06, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Reiterating the RIATF7-MEID’s Position on Recommending to the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases on the Risk-Level Reclassification of the Province of Cebu to Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ)
Resolution No. 07, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Recommending to the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Risk-Level Reclassification of Cebu City to Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine
Resolution No. 08, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Concurring Executive Order No. 17-G Issued by the Provincial Governor Of Cebu, Hon. Gwendolyn F. Garcia, Entitled De-Escalating the Risk Classification of the City of Talisay from Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine to General Community Quarantine
Resolution No. 09, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Extending the Use of DepEd Schools in the Central Visayas Region as Temporary Quarantine or Isolation Facilities Until July 15, 2020, Except for the Areas Placed Under Enhanced Community Quarantine
Resolution No. 10, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Recommending to the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Risk-Level Reclassification of the Province of Cebu to Modified General Community Quarantine, Except in the City of Talisay, and the Municipalities of Minglanilla and Consolacion Which Shall Remain Under General Community Quarantine
Resolution No. 11, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Concurring the Lifting of Hard Lockdown in Sitio Zapatera, Barangay Luz; Sitio Gonzalo, Barangay Tejero; Sitio Alaska, Barangay Mambaling; Sitio Callejon, Barangay Labangon; and Barangay Bacayan, All in Cebu City
Resolution No. 12, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Extending the Use of DepEd Schools in the Central Visayas Region as Temporary Quarantine or Isolation Facilities Until July 30, 2020
Resolution No. 13, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Approving and Adopting the Central Visayas Regional Recovery Program 2020-2022
Resolution No. 14, series of 2020 Entitled A Resolution Requesting the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to Allow Outbound Locally Stranded Individuals in Cebu City to be Exempted from the Travel Ban Amid the Enhanced Community Quarantine
LETTER-REPLIES
Letter-Reply of the RIATF7-MEID to the Letter of the Province of Siquijor re RIATF7-MEID Resolution No. 05, series of 2020
Reply to the Resolution of Siquijor Provincial Task Force COVID-19 Requesting for the Temporary Suspension of Acceptance of LSIs in Cebu City
Letter-Reply of the RIATF7-MEID to the Letter of the LMP-Bohol Chapter Recommending to Stop Receiving LSIs Until Quarantine Facilities are Empty and Available
Reply of RIATF7-MEID to the Special Report of DILG-Canlaon City Regarding the Clarificatory Question on the Alleged Conflicting Issuances of RIATF7-MEID and National Task Force Against COVID-19