In a press briefing today, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año clarified that the regions mentioned yesterday as low-risk areas will still be placed under community quarantine.
In a press briefing yesterday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque enumerated areas that will no longer be placed under community quarantine as they have been classified as low-risk areas under IATF-EID Resolution No. 35.
However, DILG Secretary Año said today that the eight regions will still be placed under community quarantine to address the petition of local executives concerned. He said that the local executives petitioned as they are not yet ready to lift the quarantine over their localities.
In light of the petition, the DILG Secretary said that an amendment will be made later on in their IATF meeting which will place the said regions under Modified GCQ instead.
Under the Modified GCQ, Año explained that local executives will be given guidelines to be used for the implementation of the community quarantine and of safety measures to prevent the spread of the virus.
“Magkakaroon pa rin ang ating mga local chief executives ng guidelines kung paano ipapatupad ang Modified GCQ nang sa ganoon, mayroon silang kapangyarihan para matigil ang pag-spread ng virus sa mga lugar na mayroon pa,” Año added.
According to him, without the implementation of a quarantine, there might be a second or third wave. Hence, as of now, no areas in the country will not be under quarantine.
Here are the following provinces, highly-urbanized cities (HUCs), and independent component cities (ICCs) categorized as low-risk areas which will be placed under Modified GCQ.
SOURCE: Presidential Communications
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