President Rodrigo Duterte is set to decide on Monday whether or not to extend the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila and other areas with a large number of COVID-19 cases.
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Metropolitan Manila Development Authority General Manager Jojo Garcia said the mayors agreed that there should only be one policy for all of Metro Manila. He said having different quarantine rules for every area is not an option, citing the difficulty in implementing them considering the contiguous and porous nature of their borders.
Garcia said the mayors instead presented to the task force three possible scenarios: extend the ECQ for two weeks, place Metro Manila under a more relaxed general community quarantine, or opt for a hybrid of both. in the final recommendation the task force will submit to Duterte. The IATF-EID will discuss and evaluate the situation also on Monday, ahead of the final recommendation to the President.
The Luzon lockdown was then extended until April 30. Metro Manila and several"high-risk" provinces have remained under strict quarantine., the Department of Health has recorded 10,794 COVID-19 cases in the country.
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