JUST IN: President Rodrigo Duterte has opted to extend the general community quarantine (GCQ) over Metro Manila because of the continued increase in confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). | DJEsguerraINQ Read more:
In Central Visayas, several areas were also placed under extended GCG — Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Siquijor, Mandaue City, and Lau-Lapu City.Meanwhile, Cebu City has been due to the increasing number of new cases and widespread community transmission in the majority of barangays in the city. http
Talisay City, a component city under the province of Cebu, was placed under modified enhanced community quarantine until June 30, 2020, for the same reasons, Roque noted.Lockdown restrictions have been eased nationwide since June 1, with Duterte placing Metro Manila and other “high-risk” areas, including Central Visayas, under a more lenient GCQ to gradually reopen the economy that was heavily battered by the pandemic.
Roque earlier said Metro Manila — home to over 12 million people and source of more than a third of the Philippines’ gross domestic product — has an “even” chance of being downgraded to the most lenient MGCQ or remaining GCQ.Experts at the University of the Philippines earlier warned that the number of coronavirus cases in the Philippines could shoot up to
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