President Rodrigo Duterte decides to ease quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila. In a speech Thursday, May 28, he says the capital region will shift to a general community quarantine starting June 1. Read:
The rest of the country will be under modified GCQ, the lowest form of community quarantine enforced by the government.
The easing of quarantine measures was recommended by the task force to the President. This recommendation echoed the wish of Metro Manila mayors for the megacity to go from the stricter modified enhanced community quarantine to GCQ. "In the data on which Metro Manila mayors based their decision, the case doubling rate for this sickness is already almost a month," he said in Filipino earlier on Thursday.
Metro Manila had an average of 5 new cases per day per million of population which led the group to classify the megacity as"high risk."in a day – 539. But the DOH said part of the rise was due to the validation of days-old positive test results.
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