“In the event crowd will grow huge and become uncontrollable, we are planning to put cordons in some areas [at the public market],” said Caballes.
Aside from this, market officials are also mulling on the need to impose crowd limit at the entrance. “If we cannot control the people coming in, then it would be a really big problem for us to enforce health protocols ,” he added. During the height of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in 2020, photos and videos of buyers crowding the Carbon Public Market, with little to no regard of minimum health standards, to purchase ingredients for binignit, a Lenten staple, went viral on social media.To avoid the same from happening, Caballes is urging marketgoers to plan their trips to Carbon Public Market to avoid from joining the Holy Week crowd.
“We have also advised vendors to, as much as possible, pack the ingredients so customers can just buy them immediately and lessen their time to stay in a store,” he said.Tempered expectationsThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.