Bar owners and other establishments in Davao City are now thinking of implementing “no vaccine card, no entry” to prevent massive infection of Covid-19 in their respective property.
Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of Davao City Covid-19 Task Force, said this is one of the steps seen to prevent the same incident involving those people partying at Supladoz Resto Bar violating the Minimum Public Health Standards (MPHS) last weekend.
It can be recalled that the city government of Davao met the bar owners in the city following the violations perpetrated by the owner of Supladoz and the customers.
“During our meeting, we have encouraged the bar owners katong “no vaccination, no entry” policy and murag willing sila to cooperate on that. They were very receptive to that idea,” Schlosser said on Wednesday.
Schlosser explained that as of the moment the city government of Davao cannot impose the “no vaccine card, no entry” policy but the private establishments can.
“Kung gustuhon sa mga private establishments na mu “no vaccination, no entry” sila, puwede na nila buhaton because that is their property,” she said.
Schlosser the city is hopeful that the bar owners will keep their promise of cooperation by implementing such policy.
“We are hoping for them to do that. They have expressed that they will cooperate on that idea or ways kay dako na ug tabang. Kahit na pagtanggal sa mask kung bakunado and with proper social distancing medyo maka-siguro na dili dako ug risko for massive spread of infection if there is infection going on,” she added.
Also discussed was the security personnel will have open communication with the bar owners so that when clients are not following MPHS, the owners can directly call the police to give citation tickets.
“This is not a question of gi-lift man gud ang liquor ban kaya nag ingon ato, hindi po, dahil kahit na may beer kung disiplinado ang mga tao na magfollow ug MPHS,” she said.
The meeting, which was also attended by members of the city’s response cluster, also tackled the violations of Supladoz Resto Bar. The bar was also given a cease and desist order by the Business Bureau for operating without a permit.
“Apart from that gi-violate nila ang pagpatuman sa MPHS sa sulod sa bar such as wearing of face mask and social distancing. The establishment itself will be held liable for not implementing the MPHS,” she said.
She said upon the investigation of the contact-tracing team, the bar did not conduct DQR scanning.
The city government of Davao will file cases against the owner of Supladoz Ilustre Restobar for illegally operating without a business permit and for violating Covid-19 protocols, such as the implementation of MPHS and Safe DQR scanning among its clients inside the establishment
“During our meeting naa didto ang tag iya sa Supladoz. He was very sorry of what had happened pero ang giingon sa atoang business bureau naa’y due process for that,” Schlosser said.
