DAVAO CITY – The city government of Davao on Monday, October 25 lifted the city’s curfew and modified liquor ban effective Tuesday, October 26.
This, after Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio issued Executive Order No. 59 on October 25, stating among others the following:
Section 1. LIQUOR BAN PERIOD. The ban in selling liquor shall be from 1:00 AM to 8:00 AM every day. As such, no person or entity shall sell liquor or any alcoholic beverages within this time period;
Section 2; . CONSUMPTION. The following are not allowed: * The serving of liquor for consumption in bars, restaurants, sari-sari stores, palengke (wet market), videoke, and other business establishments; * Drinking liquor in all public places including but not limited to streets, alleys, pathways, and outside of gates.’
Section 3. PRIVATE PROPERTIES. Alcohol may only be served and consumed inside private properties and;
Section 4. CURFEW. The curfew time in all public places is hereby lifted, among others.
The EO shall take effect from 12:01 AM of October 26, 2021 to 11:59 PM of January 15, 2022.
The City Government relaxes its policy when the city reached 71.77 percent for the first doses and 62.19 percent for second doses of its target number of inoculations as reported by the Davao City Covid-19 Task Force.
Given the figures, Duterte-Carpio stated “There is a need to ease and loosen restrictions following the decrease in the number of cases reported and the active vaccination rollout within the city.”
For almost 19-months the city government sporadically implemented the liquor ban as cases of Coronavirus disease escalates but despite the ban, records of the city police office consistently shows arrests of individual violating the order.-Editha Z. Caduaya
