How to Protect Yourself from Corona Virus


Keeping the workplace safe
Encourage your employees to…

Practice good hygiene
  • Stop handshaking – use other non-contact methods of greeting
  • Clean hands at the door and schedule regular hand washing reminders by email
  • Create habits and reminders to avoid touching their faces and cover coughs and sneezes
  • Disinfect surfaces like doorknobs, tables, desks, and handrails regularly
  • Increase ventilation by opening windows or adjusting air conditioning

Be careful with meetings and travel
  • Use videoconferencing for meetings when possible
  • When not possible, hold meetings in open, well-ventilated spaces
  • Consider adjusting or postponing large meetings or gatherings
  • Assess the risks of business travel

Handle food carefully
  • Limit food sharing
  • Strengthen health screening for cafeteria staff and their close contacts
  • Ensure cafeteria staff and their close contacts practice strict hygiene


Keeping the school safe
Encourage your faculty, staff, and students to…

Practice good hygiene
  • Stop handshaking – use other non-contact methods of greeting
  • Clean hands at the door and at regular intervals
  • Create habits and reminders to avoid touching their faces and cover coughs and sneezes
  • Disinfect surfaces like doorknobs, tables, desks, and handrails regularly
  • Increase ventilation by opening windows or adjusting air conditioning

Consider rearranging large activities and gatherings
  • Consider adjusting or postponing gatherings that mix between classes and grades
  • Adjust after-school arrangements to avoid mixing between classes and grades
  • When possible, hold classes outdoors or in open, well-ventilated spaces

Handle food carefully
  • Limit food sharing
  • Strengthen health screening for cafeteria staff and their close contacts
  • Ensure cafeteria staff and their close contacts practice strict hygiene

Stay home if…
  • They are feeling sick
  • They have a sick family member in their home


Keeping the home safe
Encourage your family members to…

All households
  • Clean hands at the door and at regular intervals
  • Create habits and reminders to avoid touching their face and cover coughs and sneezes
  • Disinfect surfaces like doorknobs, tables, and handrails regularly
  • Increase ventilation by opening windows or adjusting air conditioning

Households with vulnerable seniors or those with significant underlying conditions
Significant underlying conditions include heart, lung, kidney disease; diabetes; and conditions that suppress the immune system
  • Have the healthy people in the household conduct themselves as if they were a significant risk to the person with underlying conditions. For example, wash hands frequently before interacting with the person, such as by feeding or caring for the person
  • If possible, provide a protected space for vulnerable household members
  • Ensure all utensils and surfaces are cleaned regularly

Households with sick family members
  • Give sick members their own room if possible, and keep the door closed
  • Have only one family member care for them
  • Consider providing additional protections or more intensive care for household members over 65 years old or with underlying conditions


Keeping commercial establishments safe
Encourage your employees and customers to…

Practice good hygiene
  • Stop handshaking – use other non-contact methods of greeting
  • Clean hands at the door, and schedule regular hand washing reminders by email
  • Promote tap and pay to limit handling of cash
  • Disinfect surfaces like doorknobs, tables, desks, and handrails regularly
  • Increase ventilation by opening windows or adjusting air conditioning

Avoid crowding
  • Use booking and scheduling to stagger customer flow
  • Use online transactions where possible
  • Consider limiting attendance at larger gatherings

For transportation businesses, taxis, and ride shares
  • Keep windows open when possible
  • Increase ventilation
  • Regularly disinfect surfaces

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

DepEd is suspending all scheduled national and regional events


In light of recent developments in COVID-19, DepEd is suspending all scheduled national and regional events involving students from different localities, such as the Palaro Regional Meets, until further notice. The conduct of the Palarong Pambansa in May will be upon the advice of the Palaro board.

However, as announced yesterday, we are proceeding with the National Festival of Talents (NFOT) and National Schools Press Conference (NSPC), since participants are already at the venue. Heightened precautions are being implemented at NFOT and NSPC, which include foregoing elements of the programs that can be avoided (such as parades, etc.).

Decisions on other DepEd activities shall await definitive advisory from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) that we hope to receive tomorrow, to ensure informed, coordinated and proportionate response. 

Source: DepEd

Caraga Athletic Association Regional Sports Competition 2020


WELCOME to the BIGGEST AND HISTORIC SPORTS EVENT on the ISLAND OF SIARGAO from March 14 to 19, 2020.

The CARAGA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION REGIONAL SPORTS COMPETITION 2020 will unfold the biggest and grandest sports event of the year in the region involving 9,000 student-athletes of the Department of Education at the 6-hectare lot housing the state of the art gym, convention center, track and field, swimming pool and other facilities including Siargao Sports Academy.
Thank you to Cong. Bingo F. Matugas of District 1, who invested 300 million, for making the Sports Complex a true monument of his commitment to the youth of the island. Also to Gov. Lalo T. Matugas, who made good with his HEALS 911 agenda, where sports are made as to the foundation of a strong youth development program. 

Indeed, the province is blessed to have leaders whose vision is anchored on the philosophy that says "A sound mind in a sound body.”

Come one, come all to the island where the sun rises first in Siargao.

Source: Caraga athletic Association

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