MANILA, Philippines – It is still “under control” of the 2019 coronavirus crisis (COVID-19) even when the number of cases approached the 130,000 mark, Home Secretary Eduardo Ao said Monday.
The Manila Metropolitan Area and the provinces of Rizal, Laguna, Bulacan and Cavite have already undergone enhanced network quarantine (MECQ) until 18 August to eliminate the number of COVID-19 infections in the country and allow frontline medical groups of the pandemic.
“We see the effect of an MECQ on 14-day incubation, it’s not by magic that when we claim the MECQ, everything will be fine. We have to put a lot of effort into it. LGUs, the national government, the personal sector is really doing it all with cooperation and coordination,” he added.
Previously, the first-time Tsar of the remedies and undersecretary of fitness Leopoldo Vega said that two-week MECQ would be used to rent thousands of fitness personnel to combat the pandemic.
The Ministry of Health also stated that the MECQ era will be used to call fitness staff from other regions and serve as a “replacement team” for those running in metropolitan Manila.
The Philippines now has the number of COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia with 129,913, adding 2,270 deaths and 67,673 cures.
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