The national government’s anti-coronavirus task force has placed Cebu City back to a stricter enhanced community quarantine (ECQ).
Task Force for Management of Infectious Disease , made this announcement late Monday evening, June 15, 2020.
“Due to the increasing number of new cases and widespread community transmission in majority of the barangays in the city as well as the consistent case doubling time of less than seven days, and the significant increase in critical care utilization against critical care capacity, Cebu City shall be escalated back to ECQ,” Duque said, reading the resolution from IATF.
President Rodrigo Duterte has convened the IATF to give updates on the coronavirus disease 2019 situation in the country.Rest of CV under GCQ Duque also said the task force has upgraded the quarantine status of the neighboring Talisay City from general community quarantine to a modified ECQ.The entire Central Visayas region, on the other hand, was recommended to be
, effectively rejecting the request of Cebu Province to shift to a modified general community quarantine .Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of IATF-MEID, said the task force will be closely monitoring the situation in Cebu City, due to the spike in COVID-19 cases here.
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