MANILA, Philippines — The government has distributed cash aid amounting to P1,000 per recipient to 75 percent of beneficiaries in Metro Manila and the four adjacent provinces that had been placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Interior Secretary Eduardo Ao said on Monday during the pre-recorded briefing of President Rodrigo Duterte.
According to Ao, 17,037,122 of the 22,915,422 beneficiaries have received the one-time aid in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal — the so-called NCR Plus bubble.
The area with the highest disbursement rate is Laguna, as 2,307,825 out of the 2,718,083 intended beneficiaries — or 84.91 percen…
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