Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Philippines

I have written before about how Dumaguete / Negros Oriental have been lucky so far with the lack of local/community transmission here.
I now fear our stretch of luck may be coming to an end. This episode with the APOR (Authorized person out of residence) infecting a whole bunch of others upon his return to Dumaguete, which occurred on October 3, meaning that between then and yesterday there were a full 12 days of unsuspecting others he had been in contact with going around town and possibly causing further spread, before offices were "closed for disinfection" and families put under quarantine.
Keep your fingers crossed this won't be the start of cascading new infections here.
One other recent new case (apparently unrelated) of a health worker in barangay Calindagan is also very concerning in this respect.

 

Bamboo mill said he attended a baptism at the Catholic church in Bacong last Sunday

 

Seems that somewhere in the pre and transit process people get infected. So people could arrive here, get swabbed, but need to be swabbed again 2-3 days later. That's good for people like you and me, but if you have pull the process can be circumvented. I had this theory that the less dense the population, the more cooperation which I'll have to burn now, because privilege tears right through it. And there's lockdowns in parts of Zamboangita I've read. I was hoping we could last out for longer. Now I have my doubts.

 

I heard the same from the bamboo mill with the addition, they consider a lockdown in Bacong because of that incident

 

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