Metro Manila, 5 other places to stay under GCQ

Duterte keeps Metro Manila under GCQ for another month

President Rodrigo Duterte approved the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to keep Metro Manila under general community quarantine (GCQ) for another month.

In a statement, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said President Duterte approved the recommendation of the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to place the following under GCQ:

National Capital Region
Batangas province
Tacloban City
Iloilo City
Bacolod City
Iligan City

Lanao del Sur, including Marawi City, is still under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ).

“The rest of the country will be under modified general community quarantine,” Duterte said after Duque’s report.

Health authorities on Monday reported 3,073 new Covid-19 infections, increasing the country’s tally to 307,288.

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According to the Department of Health, the majority of the newly announced cases are from the NCR with 1,158, the provinces of Cavite with 225; Laguna, 203; Rizal, 173; and Batangas with 169 infections.

The DOH also reported 163 new recoveries, pushing the total number of recoveries to 252,665 and 37 deaths, bringing the death toll at 5,381.

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Via PNA