MANILA, Philippines — The government is open to experts’ recommendation of extending the reimposed enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) over Metro Manila and four adjacent provinces should cases continue to increase, National Task Force against COVID-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Tuesday.
According to Galvez, the government will consider extending the EQC in Metro Manila, Rizal, Bulacan, Laguna, and Cavite or collectively called the “NCR Plus bubble” if COVID-19 cases in these areas continue to see a “sharp, steep rise.”
“Kapag lalo pa nag-spike o tumaas pa [‘yung cases], I think with the recommendation of the experts that we have to extend, we …
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