A medical expert on Monday said he prefers for Metro Manila to shift to a General Community Quarantine (GCQ) with “localized lockdowns,” citing declining cases in the country.
A member of the police manning a checkpoint asks to see the quarantine pass of a resident in Navotas in suburban Manila on July 16, 2020.
“We peaked at 6,000 – 7,000 cases a day, and for the past several days that I’ve been monitoring, it has been averaging at 4,000, 3,000. I think we’ve reached the peak as predicted by the UP team, and it’s probably decelerating,” he added. “We knew very little [then]…and many countries also were second guessing on how to handle this virus. Today, we know that this very strict city-wide or region-wide lockdown is very damaging to the economy,” he said.
“If you have very good local implementation, I think we can really contain the transmission of this disease,” he added.
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