Manila Bulletin
Metro Mayors ready for MECQ — MMDA GM Garcia
Ten out of 17 Metro Manila mayors voted to extend the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) until May 31, according to MMDA spokesperson Celine Pialago.
The Metro Manila Council (MMC) accepted the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to implement a Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) from May 16 to 31 in Metro Manila, Laguna, and Cebu City.
The MECQ allows limited movement within zones for essential services and work, and operation of selected manufacturing and processing plants with a maximum of 50 percent workforce.
Limited transportation services will be available to the public, and physical classes are suspended.
The decision followed a meeting involving the MMC, health experts, and MMDA officials to recommend the IATF on the ECQ's expiration on May 15.
The remaining seven mayors' positions—whether they favored transitioning to the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) or abstained—were not disclosed by Pialago.
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