Pateros mayor says vaccination to continue under ECQ but no walk-ins mb.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mb.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published July 30, 2021, 1:44 PM
The Metro Manila mayors, through Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos, has expressed their appreciation to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) for heeding their calls for the reimposition of an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR).
MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos (Photo from MMDA Facebook page)
“The Metro Manila mayors are grateful to the Inter-agency Task Force for its prompt and appropriate action the decision to implement general community quarantine (GCQ) with heightened and additional restrictions starting today, July 30 until August 5 and enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from August 6 to 20,” Abalos said in a statement on Friday, July 30.
Published July 29, 2021, 1:45 PM
If Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos would have his way, he would have Filipinos work from home for the next two weeks as a way to halt the spread of the highly-contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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“This is my personal opinion, we should encourage people now to work from home, at least for these next two weeks,” Abalos said during a virtual press briefing Thursday, July 29.
Abalos noted during the presser that as per health experts’ projections, new daily cases of COVID-19 in the National Capital Region (NCR) alone could hit 11,000 by the end of September. This would have a crippling effect on the country’s healthcare system.
By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News
Published July 29, 2021 9:39am
Updated July 29, 2021 10:32am Metro Manila mayors will ask the national government to impose stricter quarantine measures as experts predict another COVID-19 surge caused by Delta coronavirus variant. In a phone interview Thursday, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Benhur Abalos told GMA News Online that they will still push for stricter measures amid the extension of the general community quarantine with heightened restrictions in the region. “Mamaya magmi-meeting kami ng IATF. Haharap ulit ako to petition that… Baka akala niyo nabalewala yan. No. Yan pa rin ang position ng mga mayors,” he said.
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