MANILA, Philippines—With the start of mass vaccination, Metro Manila may shift to the least stringent form of COVID-19 quarantine by April to help the economy recover more quickly from pandemic-induced recession, President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief economic manager said on Monday (March 1).
Asked if a shift to modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) would be possible in April, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said: “I believe so.”
Duterte’s economic team wanted to further ease quarantine restrictions to revive up to 95 percent of the economy under a nationwide MGCQ. On Sunday, the President said he was considering placing Metro Manila—the country’s economic and financi…
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