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President Duterte says that Metro Manila will remain under GCQ this December. Screenshot / PTV
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte has again extended the implementation of the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) in Metro Manila throughout the month of December.
Besides Metro Manila, the areas also under GCQ until the end of the year are Batangas, Iloilo City, Tacloban City, Lanao del Sur, Iligan, Davao City. The rest of the country will be under modified GCQ.
The president announced the new quarantine classifications in a prerecorded speech Monday.
The mayors of Metro Manila previously recommended the retention of GCQ in the metropolis to avoid an increase in new cases of COVID-19 during the Christmas season.
We gather there to avoid the peak or the so-called next wave, we have recommended, by the MMC (Metro Manila Council), to our IATF (Inter-Institutional Working Group on Emerging Infectious Diseases) to stay. GCQ until the end of the year ”, said the mayor of Parañaque, Edwin Olivarez, in an interview on Teleradyo.
Olivarez heads the MMC.
(We met and discussed that to prevent another spike or wave of COVID-19 infections, we recommend that the IATF maintain GCQ status until the end of the year.)
The Philippines closed the month of November with 431,630 COVID-19 cases with 8,392 deaths and 398,658 recoveries. [ac]
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