SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Leisure travel between Bataan and this free port had been suspended after the province reverted to a modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ).
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) announced Wednesday the travel restriction, citing resolution no. 121 of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases that raised the quarantine classification of Bataan.
MECQ is the second most restrictive form of quarantine in the country.
According to the SBMA, only essential travel would be allowed between Bataan and Subic Bay.
Bataan had seen a surge in COVID-19 cases early this month, which was the basis of IATF to place it on MECQ.
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