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THE PHILIPPINES is unlikely to extend the strict lockdown in the capital region and nearby provinces after April 11, according to the presidential palace, even as coronavirus infections breached the 800,000 mark on Monday.
President Rodrigo R. Duterte would probably put Metro Manila and the provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna and Cavite under a modified enhanced community quarantine, his spokesman Herminio L. Roque, Jr. told the ABS-CBN News Channel.
The President on Saturday extended the enhanced community quarantine for another week after Health authorities the day before reported that 15,310 more people had gotten the COVID-19 virus.
“I don’t think an enhanced community quarantine for a third week is actually a possibility,” Mr. Roque said. He added that the Department of Health (DoH) had recommended two weeks of a strict lockdown that would be eased after.
(Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg)
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has issued a resolution allowing the OCD to use quick response funds for the procurement of these diagnostic kits that detect protein fragments specific to the coronavirus.
The massive purchase of the antigen diagnostic test kits aim to “ensure the swift detection of cases and tracing of close contacts,” according to the latest IATF Resolution No. 108.
“The Office of the Civil Defense is hereby authorized to procure using their Quick Response Fund under the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management or such other available funds, an initial Five Hundred Thousand (500,000) pieces of any of the following Rapid Antigen Test Kits authorized by the Food and Drug Administration,” the resolution read.