{"id":56319,"date":"2020-07-01T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=56319"},"modified":"2020-07-01T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T03:29:22","slug":"duterte-announces-new-quarantine-classifications-effective-until-june-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/duterte-announces-new-quarantine-classifications-effective-until-june-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte Announces New Quarantine Classifications Effective Until June 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a televised press conference on Tuesday, June 30, President Rodrigo Duterte announced the implementation of <strong>new quarantine classifications<\/strong> with an updated list of areas that will take effect for two weeks <strong>starting July 1 to 15<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The areas\u00a0still under a more relaxed<strong> general community quarantine (GCQ)<\/strong> are\u00a0National Capital Region, Benguet, Cavite, Rizal, Lapu Lapu City, Mandaue City, Leyte, Ormoc, Southern Leyte, Talisay City in Cebu, and towns of Minglanilla and Consolacion in Cebu province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56321\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/PCOO_Duterte_800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/PCOO_Duterte_800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/PCOO_Duterte_800x534-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/PCOO_Duterte_800x534-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">President Rodrigo Duterte\u00a0during a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Malago Clubhouse in Malaca\u00f1ang\u00a0last June 30. \/IMAGE\u00a0Presidential Communications Operations Office<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On the other hand,\u00a0<strong>modified general community quarantine (MGCQ)<\/strong>\u00a0with \u201cstrict local action&#8221; shall be implemented in the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abra, Baguio City, Ifugao, Kalinga (CAR)<\/li>\n<li>Ilocos Norte, La Union, Pangasinan (Region 1)<\/li>\n<li>Cagayan, Isabela\u00a0(Region 2)<\/li>\n<li>Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Angeles City\u00a0(Region 3)<\/li>\n<li>Batangas, Laguna, Quezon, Lucena City\u00a0(Region 4-A)<\/li>\n<li>Palawan, Puerto Princesa City\u00a0(Region 4-B)<\/li>\n<li>Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Naga City\u00a0(Region 5)<\/li>\n<li>Capiz, Iloilo, Iloilo City, Negros Occidental, Bacolod City\u00a0(Region 6)<\/li>\n<li>Cebu Province, Bohol, Negros Oriental\u00a0(Region 7)<\/li>\n<li>Tacloban City, Western Samar\u00a0(Region 8)<\/li>\n<li>Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur\u00a0(Region 9)<\/li>\n<li>Bukidnon, Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, Cagayan de Oro\u00a0(Region 10)<\/li>\n<li>Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao City, Davao de Oro\u00a0(Region 11)<\/li>\n<li>Cotabato, South Cotabato\u00a0(Region 12)<\/li>\n<li>Agusan del Norte, Butuan City\u00a0(Region 13)<\/li>\n<li>Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur (BARMM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The aforementioned areas should provide a localized community quarantine, zoning, and strict enforcement of minimum health standards with a scale-up of health system capacity\u00a0in relation to the &#8220;strict local action&#8221; protocol. Isolation of overseas Filipinos, locally stranded individuals, and close contacts shall also be observed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile,\u00a0Cebu City is still placed under <strong>enhanced community quarantine (ECQ)<\/strong> due to\u00a0the steady increase in the number of COVID-19 infections in the area. The rest of the Philippines, however, would be placed under MGCQ under &#8220;low risk&#8221; classification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As of June 30, there are a total of 37,514 cases of COVID-19 in the country with 10,233 recoveries and 1,266 mortalities.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1107574\" target=\"_blank\">Philippine News Agency<br \/>\n<\/a>Image grabbed from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pcoo.gov.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\">Presidential Communications Operations Office<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte announced the implementation of new quarantine classifications with an updated list of areas that will take effect for two weeks starting July 1 to 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13477,13436,13586,13620,119],"class_list":["post-56319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-ecq","tag-gcq","tag-gcq-metro-manila","tag-mgcq","tag-philippines"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/PCOO_Duterte_feat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56331,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56319\/revisions\/56331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}