{"id":5278,"date":"2020-03-12T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2020-03-12T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:43:37","slug":"metro-manila-under-community-quarantine-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/metro-manila-under-community-quarantine-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Manila under \u2018community quarantine\u2019 due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>President Rodrigo Duterte approved the imposition of a \u201ccommunity quarantine\u201d in the entire Metro Manila as a response of the government to contain the spread of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recommendation to put the National Capital Region (NCR) under isolation was made by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases; it was approved by Duterte in a meeting in Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this isolationist move, land, domestic air, and domestic sea travel to and from Metro Manila will be suspended starting March 15 until April 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local government units outside Metro Manila are advised to follow the following guidelines in imposing localized community quarantine in their respective jurisdictions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Barangay-wide quarantine when there are at least two COVID-19 cases belonging to different households in the same barangay<\/li><li>Municpality\/city-wide quarantine when there are at least two COVID-19 cases belonging to different barangays in the same municipality\/city<\/li><li>Province-wide quarantine when there are at least two COVID-19 cases belonging to different municipalities, component cities or independent component cities in the same province<\/li><li>LGUs\u00a0 which have imposed community quarantine will be allowed to access their Quick Response Fund upon declaration of a State of Calamity<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Also banned are mass gatherings or the \u201cplanned or spontaneous event where the number of people attending could strain the planning and response resources of the community hosting the event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this isolationist move, land, domestic air, and domestic sea travel to and from Metro Manila will be suspended starting March 15 until April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2294,92,919,222,2299],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-covid-19","tag-health-facility","tag-healthcare","tag-metro-manila","tag-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5280,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/5280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}