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MANILA - Persons allowed outside of their residences will no longer need to present a quarantine pass once Metro Manila shifts into general community quarantine, police said Thursday.

These include frontliners, workers employed under authorized industries to operate, senior citizens and those aged 21 to 59 who need to avail of essential goods and services, according to Police Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar.

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"Hindi na po actually kailangan 'yun kasi unang-una alam naman po natin na dito sa GCQ mas madami nang allowed lumabas. Either you belong in the workforce of the permitted industries or you will avail the goods and service ng mga ito," said Eleazar, head of the Joint Task Force COVID-19.

(Quarantine pass is not needed because we know under GCQ, more people are allowed to go outside. Either you belong in the workforce of the permitted industries or you will avail their goods and services.)

"Kung kayo po ay nandun sa mga mag-a-avail, dapat po i-avail niyo basically dun sa lugar niyo. Hindi pa rin tayo dapat nagko-cross ng mga lugar."

(If you will avail services, you must do so in your area. You should not cross to other areas.)

Government earlier said quarantine passes are still required in all areas under community quarantine.

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The government's pandemic task force had also recommended that those aged 0 to 21, and those 60 years old and above should stay home even as parts of the country shift to GCQ from an enhanced community quarantine.

President Rodrigo Duterte will decide before the weekend whether or not to further loosen the lockdown of some 12 million people in Metro Manila, the Department of the Interior and Local Government said.

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