SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Mar 22 (PIA) - - Farmers are urged to strictly observe a social distancing at a minimum of one meter apart while doing farm chores to ensure their safety from the possible infection of COVID–19.
Dr. Valeriano Lopez, the regional director of the Department of Health (DOH) Region 1, made the call during the joint meeting of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Region 1 (RDRRMC1) and the Region 1 Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) on Thursday.
Although the farmers have more exposure to sunlight, Lopez said that this is not a guarantee that they are less infected with the COVID–19.
He said that there’s no local scientific evidence to prove that the virus will not transfer from a human to another human, who are working under the heat of the sun. Though, there were reports that the virus will not survive when exposed to sunlight with a minimum temperature at 26 degrees celsius.
Aside from social distancing, the farmers should practice proper handwashing, cough or sneezing etiquette and stay at home if they don’t have farming activities.
However, farmers in the region started to flock in their farms as the harvesting season of corn and matured leaves of tobacco had already begun.
In the light of the enhanced community quarantine being implemented in the entire Luzon due to COVID–19, Lopez said that no one is exempted from the precautionary measures set by the national government through the IATF–EIa (JCR/FGL, PIA – 1)
source https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1036860
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