Mayor Inday Sara Duterte has modified the liquor ban guidelines and lifted the curfew in Davao City effective 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, to 11:59 p.m. on January 15, 2022.
Mayor Duterte signed Executive Order (EO) No. 59, otherwise known as “An Order Providing for the Modified Guidelines on Liquor Ban and the Lifting of Curfew Within the City,” on Monday, October 25, 2021.
In her EO, Mayor Duterte, who recently survived COVID-19, said, “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.”
In her Special Hours program over 87.5 Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR) program aired on October 25, the mayor bared that the new liquor ban is from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. thus no person or entity shall sell liquor or any alcoholic beverages during this period.
“Sa Section 1 sugod ala una sa kadlawon kutob sa alas otso sa buntag bawal mamaligya og ilimnon na makahubog (In section 1, from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. it is prohibited to sell alcoholic beverages). Nganong modified (Why modified)? Kay regulated ang consumption,” she said.
Alcoholic beverages, according to her, may only be served and consumed inside private properties.
Prohibited are serving liquor for consumption in bars, restaurants, sari-sari stores, palengke (wet market), videoke, and other business establishments; and drinking liquor in all public places, including, but not limited to streets, alleys, pathways, and outside of gates.
Mayor Duterte said the city will do it slowly, saying, “If we see that there is really that good effect of vaccination and medicine will be available and ready, pwede ra na ibalhin diha sa public places (we can bring alcohol consumption in public places).”
She also said that the curfew in all public places has also been lifted. “Wala napo tay curfew (We no longer have a curfew),” the local chief executive said.
The mayor continued, “We will see if at any time we can expect massive surge, we will again modify the liquor ban and atoang (our) curfew. But for now and hopefully until January 15, mao na sya ang guide sa atoang liquor ban og curfew diri sa Davao City (that’s our guide for our liquor ban and curfew in Davao City).”
EO 59 cited that Davao City, which has been placed under Alert Level 3 from October 20 to October 31, 2021, is currently at 71.77 percent for first doses and 62.19 percent for second doses of its herd immunity target of 1.2 million as reported by the Davao City Task Force on COVID-19 on October 25, 2021.
Check the full provisions of EO 59 at https://dcstaging.davaocity.gov.ph/transparency/executive-orders/2021-executive-orders/. CIO
