Tag: COVID19 cases in Metro Manila

Metro Manila still under GCQ with heightened restrictions from August 1 to 15

Several areas in Region 6, 10 under ECQ from Aug. 1 to 7 (Eagle News) — Metro Manila will remain under a general community quarantine with heightened restrictions from August 1 to 15. Based on President Rodrigo Duterte’s approval of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases’ resolution, Iloilo City and Iloilo province in Region 6,  and Cagayan de Oro City and Gingoog City in Region 10 will be under the […]

MMDA to hire 300 more contact tracers amid increase in COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila

  (Eagle News) — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority will hire 300 more contact tracers. MMDA chair Benhur Abalos said in a television interview the decision was made following the spike in COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila. On February 22, he said COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila were at 3,767. On  March 7, he said the cases reached 7,031. “Nakikita mo ‘yung dami eh, yung numero halos doble,” he said. Earlier, the OCTA research group […]