MANILA, Philippines — The lifting of community quarantine restrictions in the country is unlikely to happen this year, Malacaang said Monday.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said such a decision has to be made by the government’s pandemic task force, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).
“That’s a decision to be made by the IATF ‘no pero tingin ko po, malabo pa iyan [but as I see it, it would be unlikely],” he said in a Palace briefing.
He made the remark after the Department of the Interior and Local Government said the national government is eyeing to do away with quarantine classifications so local chief executives …
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