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Metro Manila, along with six other areas, will remain under the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) classification next month.
During his public address Monday night, President Rodrigo R. Duterte announced that he approved the recommendation of the Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on the new community quarantine classifications.
This includes locating the National Capital Region (NCR); the provinces of Batangas and Lanao Del Sur; and the cities of Iloilo, Bacolod, Tacloban, Iligan under GCQ.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the IATF considered the NCR mayors’ recommendations, daily attack rate data, and hospital utilization rate in making the recommendation.
The Palace official, however, noted that the list could still change as the affected local government units (LGUs) could still file an appeal to the IATF to be removed from the list until Thursday.
Roque said the new classification will go into effect from November 1 to November 30, 2020.
Duterte said that some of the mayors of the regions concerned actually want to make their GCQ classification “permanent” because they have observed how it significantly reduced the number of new coronavirus (Covid-19) diseases in their respective areas.
