Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco residents did not follow quarantine protocols, like wearing of face masks, when the city was placed under general community quarantine by the national government.
Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco deplored the complacency of the city residents that led to the city's 14-day hard lockdown starting at 5 a.m. of Thursday.
“They became too complacent because 85 percent of positive patients in our city are asymptomatic,” said the mayor.Based on the city's data, Tiangco emphasized that most virus transmissions in Navotas came from families. “When a person goes out of the house, we should suspect that he/she contracted COVID-19," pointed out."We cannot do anything about it, that is the characteristic of the virus."
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