President Rodrigo Duterte warns a possible return to enhanced community quarantine if number of coronavirus infection will spike as more areas are slowly reopening.
President Rodrigo Duterte has warned a possible return to enhanced community quarantine if the number of coronavirus infection will spike as more areas are slowly reopening., if the contamination will be as fast as before and it will continue to infect, then we'll have to just go back to the original program,” said Duterte in a late night address.
Areas considered as high-risk, including Metro Manila and six other provinces, have been placed under aDuterte noted that these areas were placed under such restriction to contain the COVID-19 infections.ito yung nakita namin na talagang kailangan para hindi lalala ang sitwasyon[Translation: These areas which are not yet reopened, which are under the modified lockdown, these are the ones we think to place in such restriction to avoid making things worse.
Meanwhile, more than 50 provinces were allowed to go back to their normal day-to-day lives starting last weekend.already warned of another lockdown if cases surge again. So far, the country has more than 12,940 cases with around 2,800 recoveries and about 830 deaths.
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