Metro Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Rizal, and Bulacan will be under modified enhanced community quarantine from August 4 to 18.
against the coronavirus pandemic, President Rodrigo Duterte decided to revert Metro Manila and nearby provinces to a stricter form of quarantine.
The groups, representing some 80,000 doctors and a million nurses, had warned on Saturday, August 1, that the country’s health system is on the brink of collapse. On Sunday, Duterte met with key Cabinet members, including Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, National Task Force Chief Implementer Carlito Galvez Jr, treatment czar Leopoldo Vega, and Roque.1.
“The health sector cannot hold the line for much longer. Our healthcare workers should not bear the burden of deciding who lives and who dies. If the health system collapses, it is ultimately our poor who are most compromised,” they said.
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