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MANILA, Philippines – Metro Manila will remain under a less restrictive general community quarantine (GCQ) from Sept. 1 to 30, as total COVID-19 cases in the country reached 220,000, President Rodrigo said Monday night. Duterte.
In a recorded speech, Duterte said that the provinces of Bulacan and Batangas and the cities of Tacloban and Bacolod would also be under GCQ for a month.
Iligan City will be under a modified enhanced community quarantine, or MECQ, while the rest of the country will be under the more lenient modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), Duterte added.
The government generally imposes varying degrees of coronavirus lockdown restrictions in different areas for just 14 days.
But the government’s COVID-19 task force previously said it was considering implementing one-month community quarantine periods instead of the current two-week durations.
There were currently 220,819 confirmed coronavirus infections nationwide as of Monday, of which 157,562 have recovered and 3,558 died.
More than half of the total cases nationwide were registered in Metro Manila.
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