Dr. Jun Ynares As we go to press, President Duterte and the Cabinet are set to meet and discuss proposals from the country’s economic managers to put the entire country under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) status starting the first of March this year. This follows days of intense debate played out in media. It was further fueled by an announcement by the Inter-agency Task Force on Emerging Diseases (IATF) that it was set to allow movie houses to open for business – a move strongly opposed by a number of local government officials including some mayors of Metro Manila.