MANILA, Philippines — Bayan Muna minced no words in describing the national government’s decision to put Metro Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Bulacan, and Rizal under enhanced community quarantine — more than a year after the same measure was put in place to curb the effects of COVID-19.
“Placing the National Capital Region (NCR) + under the Enchanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) without massive free mass testing, aggressive contact tracing, effective and timely isolation and treatment as well as fast tracking the vaccination roll out would just be repeating the same militarist, inefficient and highly ineffective lockdowns done by the Duterte administration for more than a year now,” House D…
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