Hi! I’m Mark Gian Dela Cruz and I am currently a freshman student taking BSHM in Bulacan State University, I made this blog to share my experience and our current situation here of my family.

The occurrence of the COVID-19 here in the Philippines brought us an unexpected changes and difficulties regarding on our daily life. It is started on the 16th of March 2020 when the President of the Philippines declared that the whole region of Luzon must be under the state of Enhance Community Quarantine wherein the classes in school, restaurants, facilities, flights, and jobs of Filipino has been suspended in the purpose of social distancing for the meantime.

Regarding to our situation here in our town Hagonoy, me and my family decided to stay at home and limit ourselves from socializing and going outside our house. As for our Mayor they are in a current progress and has been doing well on his responsibilities to our town, the places here in every barangay are being disinfect by pumping water by the firefighters, the tricycle drivers, jeepney drivers and UV express are will be given a financial assistance by our town government and they are packing and distributing food for every family. There is also this thing that only one person in the family can go outside and required to have a permission paper given by their own barangay to be approved and can go to the market at the date and time given. During 8 in the evening everyone should be inside their house and no one must be seen outside. When it comes to our food supply, luckily aside from the food pack that was given by our town government, we also got relief foods from our close family ties that has privilege and we are thankful for it for having them.

Since the Enhance Community Quarantine has been implemented, there is literally no exact date when we were will be release from our home and from the news that I saw it will last till the 30th of April 2020. Watching news in the television and being stayed updated in the social media are the best way for now to know the current situation in our locality. For the precautions, following safety tips on how to avoid the spread and being infected of the virus are all what can we do here in our home hoping and praying that there will be cure for this so that this pandemic happening will end soon.

Thanks for joining me!

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