The City of Mati’s Incident Management Team (IMT) will be subjecting all Mati City residents who came from Davao City thru the Oplan Sundo of the Provincial Government to the Covid-19 rapid diagnostic testing upon arrival.

In a protocol laid out by the IMT, all arrivals from places under Enhanced Community Quarantine or with known active local transmissions will be subjected to a screening protocol at the “immigration area” located at the Mati City Welcome Arc in the border with San Isidro town.

The travelers will also be made to sign the waiver which states that they would undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

After the screening protocol at the border, the travelers will then proceed to the Alternate Care Site at the Milagrosa Retreat Center for triage and testing of the “repatriated” Matinians.

The ACS Testing Team will then conduct RDT to all Matinian “repatriates”. If the RDT result turns positive, the patient will be classified as “probable case” and will be admitted at the ACS and will undergo swabbing for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing.

Those who would test negative for RDT and PCR tests will be allowed to undergo strict quarantine either at their home or at a PUM facility. They will be monitored on a daily basis by assigned Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams for 14 days.

The BHERTs would also monitor compliance and refer quarantine violations to the PNP for enforcement of RA 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act. (CIO MATI)