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Metro Manila, 9 other areas stay under GCQ in January 2021

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 28 11:52 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday night that Metro Manila and 9 other areas will stay under general community quarantine (GCQ), the third strictest of 4 lockdown levels, until January 31, 2021.   Read more »

'Hindi pa kailangan ng lockdown': Año backs GCQ in Metro Manila for January

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 28 12:04 PM

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said Monday he supported maintaining the less strict general community quarantine (GCQ) status in Metro Manila in January despite the threat of a new, potentially more transmissible variant of COVID-19. Read more »

MGCQ in Metro Manila rests on 'good' virus tally after holidays: Trade chief

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 09 05:32 PM

Metro Manila has "a likelihood" of being placed under the loosest of the 4 quarantine levels if it can sustain the decrease in its active novel coronavirus infections through the Christmas and New Year holiday, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said Wednesday.   Read more »

Duterte keeps Metro Manila, Davao City under GCQ until yearend

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 30 10:19 PM

MANILA (UPDATED) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday kept Metro Manila and his hometown Davao City in the south under general community quarantine until the end of the year to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Read more »

Metro Manila mayors want shorter curfew for Simbang Gabi

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 30 08:26 AM

Metro Manila mayors have recommended to national government to extend general community quarantine in the region until end of the year and to shorten curfew hours to make way for Simbang Gabi, their representative said Monday.   Read more »

Metro Manila mayors want to keep GCQ thru holidays, easing 'maybe next year'- Galvez

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 04:18 PM

Mayors of Metro Manila want the coronavirus lockdown over its 12 million people to remain unchanged over theupcoming Christmas holidays, an official leading the country's pandemic response said Thursday.    Read more »

Metro Manila mayors want GCQ until end of 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 29 11:55 PM

Metro Manila mayors see he need to keep the general community quarantine status in the region until the end of the year.   Read more »

Metro Manila mayors want GCQ until end of 2020

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 29 09:49 AM

Metro Manila mayors are urging the national government to keep the National Capital Region under general community quarantine until end of December to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, their representative said Thursday. Read more »

Mayors want Metro Manila to stay under GCQ: Año

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 26 11:36 AM

Metro Manila mayors want to extend the general community quarantine (GCQ) in the country’s capital region as COVID-19 remains a threat, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said Monday. Read more »

Metro Manila shortens curfew hours, residents aged 18-65 allowed outside homes

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 19 04:00 PM

Metro Manila residents aged 18 to 65 will be allowed outside their homes between 4 a.m. to 12 midnight beginning this week as mayors shortened curfew hours, an official said Monday. Read more »

Restobars dapat humingi ng clearance kung pwedeng mag 24 oras - DTI

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 14 10:08 AM

MAYNILA - Hinikayat ng Department of Trade and Industry ang mga restobar na makipag-ugnayan sa kanilang lokal na pamahalaan kung sakop ba ang kanilang negosyo na mag-operate ng 24-oras.   Read more »

Ex-health chief backs allowing more residents to go outside their homes

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 13 10:06 AM

A former health chief on Tuesday expressed support for Metro Manila mayors' proposal to allow more residents outside their homes. Read more »

Metro Manila mayors eye allowing more residents to go outside homes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 13 01:32 AM

Metro Manila mayors are considering to allow more residents to leave their homes. Read more »

House parties emerge as trend for drug use, trade: PDEA chief

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 09:35 PM

House parties are becoming the new breeding grounds for illegal drug users and pushers, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Thursday. Read more »

Palace: Metro Manila MGCQ in Nov 'not an impossibility'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 02:43 PM

Downgrading the coronavirus lockdown of Metro Manila to the least stringent of 4 levels by next month "is not an impossibility", Malacañang said Thursday, as authorities sought to revive the economy that the pandemic dragged into recession.  Read more »

No Luneta 'Traslacion'? Quiapo Church eyes changes in Black Nazarene feast amid pandemic

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 01 08:39 AM

How will the Catholic Church celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene in the time of COVID-19? Read more »

COVID-19 task force says hospital bed occupancy rates in NCR still high

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 09:34 PM

Slow recovery rates of COVID-19 patients in the Philippines prevented officials from easing the quarantine status of Metro Manila. Read more »

Metro mayors want 'stable decline' in COVID-19 cases before shifting to MGCQ: Zamora

Trishia Billones, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 29 11:54 AM

Metro Manila mayors want to see a continuous decline in the number of COVID-19 cases before seeking a shift to the lowest quarantine level, the chief executive of San Juan City said on Tuesday. Read more »

Metro Manila, other areas to stay under GCQ in October

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 28 11:33 PM

(UPDATE) Metro Manila and several areas will remain under general community quarantine (GCQ) in October, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III announced Monday night, as the country keeps most of its virus restrictions in place. Read more »

Govt to decide on Metro Manila lockdown later Monday: Palace

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 28 10:37 AM

The government's inter-agency task force against COVID-19 will decide later Monday whether to ease Metro Manila's lockdown as its general community quarantine status (GCQ) is set to end Sep. 30, Malacañang said. Read more »