There’s no need to put Visayas and Mindanao under lockdown for now, as Luzon, the country’s political and economic center, struggles with the new coronavirus outbreak, Malacañang said. | DJEsguerraINQ
“Sa madaling sabi ‘yung Visayas at sa Mindanao depende po sa sitwasyon. sa ngayon sa tingin natin ay hindi kailangan,” he added.
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, spokesman of the Inter-agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, added that expanding the Luzon lockdown to the Visayas and Mindanao is off the table for now. But he noted that the task force will be monitoring the trends in the region “day by day, week by week.”
President Rodrigo Duterte earlier placed the entire island of Luzon, home to about half of the country’s population, under a month-long lockdown to curb the spread of the virus that originated in Hubei, China. He has ordered that theThis strict measure also effectively suspended work for the majority of the region’s residents as it likewise halted the operations of mass public transport.
Provincial and town executives from other parts of the country have also rolled out similar measures in their respective jurisdictions such as Cebu City, Davao City, and the provinces of Albay, Bulacan, Pangasinan, Misamis Oriental, Tarlac, Laguna among others.a vast majority of which were reported in Luzon. Meanwhile, 163 patients have died while 73 have recovered nationwide.
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