MANILA, Philippines — The country’s chief economist on Wednesday said the declining number of COVID-19 cases alongside increasing mass vaccination would allow a less restrictive quarantine level in Metro Manila.
“We have to open the economy — MGCQ or better — at the appropriate time,” Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua told members of the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop), referring to modified general community quarantine — currently the least stringent classification of areas placed under movement restrictions to contain COVID-19 transmission.
The National Capital Region (NCR) and neighboring provinces were now under general community quaran…
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