Cainta students to wear face masks when classes resume Wednesday amid COVID-19 threat

Cainta Mayor Kit Nieto on Monday said face masks will be distributed to public school students when classes resume on Wednesday amid the threat of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

The pronouncement came after a couple in Cainta tested positive for COVID-19.

Interviewed on GMA News’ Unang Balita, Nieto said the couple did not mingle with their neighbors in the village.

Still, the local government decided to adopt measures to prevent possible transmission of the coronavirus.

“We already suspended classes here until Tuesday, kasi inutusan ko ‘yung procurement officer to make available masks that will be given sa mga estudyante na papasok sa Miyerkoles,” he said.

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All public schools will be sanitized during the two-day class suspension, Nieto added.

“In the meantime, we will take advantage of the class suspension. Lahat ng public schools will be sanitized. We will have our fumigation activity,” Nieto said.

The government will also prepare vitamins, alcohol, and disinfectant in response to the threat of transmission.

At least 275 barangay health workers will be deployed to conduct a house to house temperature check on residents.

One of the COVID-19-positive Cainta residents frequented a Muslim prayer hall in Greenhills Shopping Center in San Juan City. —Joviland Rita/KG, GMA News