Lumaktaw sa pangunahing content

Some areas to revert to stricter quarantine

Some areas in modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) will return to the stricter general community quarantine (GCQ) starting February 1, Malacañang said on Thursday.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) was due to meet on Thursday to discuss new quarantine classifications for Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr.

Roque said the IATF-EID recommendation will then be presented to Rodrigo Duterte, who will make the new quarantine rules official.

“Napakahirap po kasi magsalita kasi talagang nirereserba natin kay Presidente ‘yung desisyon (It’s hard to speak because we don’t want to preempt the President),” Roque said in an interview with DZMM radio.

Roque said the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Region 11 (Davao Region), which both have a “moderate risk” classification in terms of coronavirus bed utilization, were candidates for a stricter lockdown.

A possible quarantine reclassification came as the single-day total of new Covid-19 cases reached 2,245 on Wednesday, the highest since November 8.

The new cases raised the total coronavirus infections to 518,407.

Topping the list of areas with the most number of additional infections are Baguio City and Cebu City with 121 cases each, Davao City with 102, Quezon City with 87, and Pangasinan with 81.

The Department of Health (DoH) also reported 95 additional Covid-related deaths for a total of 10,481 fatalities. There were also 140 additional recovered patients, or a total of 475,542 recoveries.

The DoH has endorsed a stricter quarantine in CAR, which is under MGCQ.

Twelve cases of the new coronavirus variant were earlier detected in Bontoc, Mountain Province.

Relatedly, Metro Manila mayors favor extending the region’s GCQ status amid the detection of the new Covid-19 variant in the country, Metro Manila Council Chairman and Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez said.

“Kung magluluwag po tayo, napakahirap po na magkakaroon tayo ng spike lalong paparating na ang vaccine (If we ease the quarantine, it could lead to a spike in cases at a time with the vaccines are arriving),” Olivarez said during an interview with DZMM radio.


Source: ManilaTimes
Mga etiketa:

Mga Komento

Mag-post ng isang Komento

Mga sikat na post sa blog na ito

‘Ang Dating Daan’ founder Eli Soriano, 73

ELISEO “Eli” Soriano, televangelist and founder of the Members Church of God International, also known as “Ang Dating Daan” (The Old Path), died early Friday morning in Brazil. He was 73 years old. “It is with deep sadness, yet with full faith in the Almighty, that we announce the passing of our beloved and one and only Bro. Eliseo “Eli” Soriano — a faithful preacher, brother, father, and grandfather to many,” The group said in its Facebook page. There were no details on the cause of his death. Soriano started his preaching in Guagua, Pampanga, and later started his media evangelism career on radio in 1980 and on television in 1983. He is known for his method of using biblical expositions under the “Itanong mo kay Soriano (Ask Soriano)” television program, where his audience can get a chance to ask him questions, as well as for his “revelations” of doctrinal errors in other religions. He was also known to debate with various religious leaders and sects, especially against the infl...
Mag-post ng isang Komento
Magbasa nang higit pa

Inflation seen to pick up in Jan

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Friday the country’s headline inflation likely rose to 3.7 percent this month on higher prices of fuel, meat and sin products, and on increased power rates. A shopper checks out goods at a stall in a market on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on Tuesday.PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ In a statement, BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno said January’s point inflation estimate was within the 3.3- to 4.1-percent forecast range of the central bank. The outlook was faster than the 3.5-percent consumer price growth in December 2020 and the 2.9 percent a year earlier. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) will release official January inflation data on February 5. “Higher prices of fuel and meat, as well as increased Meralco (Manila Electric Co.) power rates and excise taxes on alcoholic beverages and tobacco, contributed to upward price pressures during the month,” Diokno said. Local oil companies hiked fuel prices three times this month. Price incr...
Mag-post ng isang Komento
Magbasa nang higit pa

Biden presses Xi on HK, Xinjiang in first phone call

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Joe Biden pressed Chinese leader Xi Jinping over human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang late Wednesday in their first call since the new US president took office on January 20, according to the White House. Setting the stage for what could extend the contentious relationship between the two superpowers, Biden offered Xi his “greetings and wellwishes” for the Chinese people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year celebrations, the White House said in a statement. But, laying his own groundwork for Washington-Beijing ties after four tumultuous years under predecessor Donald Trump, Biden immediately challenged his counterpart over China’s projection of power in the Indo-Pacific region, the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and the oppressive treatment of millions of Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region. In the call Biden told Xi that his priorities were to protect the American people’s security, prosperity, health and way of life, and to preserve “a fr...
Mag-post ng isang Komento
Magbasa nang higit pa