Iloilo City placed under MECQ from May 23 to 31 amid surge in COVID cases

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  (Eagle News) — The Philippine Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ATF-EID) placed Iloilo City under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) effective Sunday, May 23, until May 31. The IATF, in its resolution no. 116-C issued on Saturday, May 22, said that Iloilo City was “escalated” to MECQ from the General Community Quarantine protocol “upon the appeal of the local government unit” because of rising COVID-19 cases in the city. […]