GOVERNOR Ralph DLG Torres has renewed his declaration of state of public health emergency and continued declaration of state of significant emergency establishing Covid-19 response, quarantine, and preventive containment measures.
Ralph DLG Torres
He also renewed the order directing the CNMI Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office, through the CNMI Covid-19 Task Force and in partnership with the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp., to undertake necessary Covid-19 containment measures by means of the development of public health and safety emergency directives.
These orders will remain in effect for 30 days, or until Wednesday, Feb. 10.
“Although vaccines and treatments are emerging, the best current measures against Covid-19 are quarantine, isolation and containment,” the governor said in his executive order.
“Covid-19 continues to pose a significant and imminent threat of harm to the community, environment and people of the CNMI and thus emergency declarations are necessary to respond, quarantine and ensure the prevention of or containment of Covid-19 in the CNMI,” he added.
To date, there have been over 22 million positive cases reported in the United States, of which over 375,000 resulted in fatalities.
In the CNMI, since March 28, 2020, there had been 128 cases of Covid-19 as of Monday with five individuals in isolation.
Of the 128 total cases, 102 were detected through travel screening, 10 through community-screening and 16 through contact tracing.
