{"id":62081,"date":"2021-08-21T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=62081"},"modified":"2021-08-20T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T07:08:46","slug":"malacanang-downgrades-ncr-other-provinces-quarantine-status-to-mecq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2021\/08\/21\/malacanang-downgrades-ncr-other-provinces-quarantine-status-to-mecq\/","title":{"rendered":"NCR, Laguna, Bataan under MECQ until the end of August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang has placed <strong>the National Capital Region (NCR) and the provinces of Laguna and Bataan<\/strong> under the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine until the <strong>end of August<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62097\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/c5d2d4f4ce52de979cef8fb9e36956cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/c5d2d4f4ce52de979cef8fb9e36956cc.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/c5d2d4f4ce52de979cef8fb9e36956cc-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/c5d2d4f4ce52de979cef8fb9e36956cc-768x542.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGE from Philippine Primer<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, President Rodrigo Duterte approved the latest quarantine status in the NCR and the provinces in the South after the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Manila and Laguna are placed under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) from Aug 21 to 31, while\u00a0Bataan will be under MECQ from Aug 23 to 31.<\/p>\n<p>Those areas were initially placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), the most stringent of the lockdown levels, due to rising cases of COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said that religious gatherings should remain \u201cvirtual\u201d in Metro Manila, Laguna, and Bataan, despite the de-escalation of quarantine level. He added that indoor and alfresco dining, as well as personal care services such as beauty salons, beauty parlors, barbershops, and nail spas are still prohibited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62098\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/rsz_image_from_ios.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/rsz_image_from_ios.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/rsz_image_from_ios-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/rsz_image_from_ios-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/rsz_image_from_ios-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGE from Philippine Primer<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added that local government units in NCR, Laguna, and Bataan are likewise directed to improve the vaccination rates within their localities, as well as intensify the \u201cPrevent-Detect-Isolate-Treat-Reintegrate strategies to curb the spread of the virus. He said minimum public health and safety standards must also be observed at all times in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the country has reported 14,895 new COVID-19 infections, increasing it to 1,791,003. The record includes 1,648,402 recoveries, 111,720 active cases, and 30,881 fatalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palace places Metro Manila, Laguna, and Bataan under modified enhanced community (MECQ) until the end of month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12985,5],"tags":[1423,12848,13477,1964,15114,13735,303,14577],"class_list":["post-62081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19-daily-update","category-news-and-current-events","tag-bataan","tag-covid-19","tag-ecq","tag-laguna","tag-lockdown","tag-mecq","tag-metro-manila","tag-ncr"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/c5d2d4f4ce52de979cef8fb9e36956cc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62081","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=62081"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62106,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62081\/revisions\/62106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}