Metro Manila mayors want to keep GCQ thru holidays, easing 'maybe next year'- Galvez

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/11/26/20200831-parol-christmas-lmp-153.jpg"/><figcaption>A worker prepares a Christmas lantern for display on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020 at a shop along Granada Street in Quezon City where shops usually pop up at start of the &#x27;ber&#x27; months. <em>Larry Monserate Piojo, ABS-CBN News/File </em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>MANILA — Mayors of Metro Manila want the COVID-19 lockdown over the region&#x27;s 12 million people to remain enforced through the holidays, an official leading the country&#x27;s pandemic response said Thursday. </p><p>The local chief executives are &quot;very cautious&quot; about downgrading the region&#x27;s current general community quarantine (GCQ) status, the 3rd strictest of 4 lockdown levels, said National Task Force Against COVID-19 chief implementer Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. </p><p>&quot;Ang recommendation po nila, just in case magkaroon ng easing of restriction, maybe next year, after the holidays,&quot; he told reporters.</p><p>(Their recommendation is that just in case there is an easing of restriction, maybe it should be done next year, after the holidays.)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/032mdHhfewo?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a> <em> Video courtesy of PTV </em></div><p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Nov. 30 will address the public and announce quarantine classifications for December, his spokesman Harry Roque said in the same press briefing. </p><p>Metro Manila, which accounts for about a third of the country&#x27;s gross domestic product, has been under GCQ since August, with stricter lockdowns enforced in earlier months as COVID-19 infections rose. Only select businesses are allowed to operate at full capacity in GCQ areas.</p><p>The Philippines has tallied 422,915 coronavirus infections, as of Wednesday. The unabated first wave of infections has prevented the economy from fully reopening.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/multimedia/infographic/03/17/20/tracking-covid-19-cases-in-the-philippines">Tracking COVID-19 cases in the Philippines</a></li></ul><p>The World Health Organization said Monday that avoiding family gatherings would be &quot;the <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/24/20/curtailed-christmas-could-be-safest-bet-who">safest bet</a>&quot; over Christmas, insisting there is no zero-risk option for traditional holiday merry-making during the coronavirus pandemic.</p>

<p>Mayors of Metro Manila want the coronavirus lockdown over its 12 million people to remain unchanged over theupcoming Christmas holidays, an official leading the country's pandemic response said Thursday. <br /> </p>

Mayors of Metro Manila want the coronavirus lockdown over its 12 million people to remain unchanged over theupcoming Christmas holidays, an official leading the country's pandemic response said Thursday.

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Metro Manila mayors want to keep GCQ thru holidays, easing 'maybe next year'- Galvez

Metro Manila mayors want to keep GCQ thru holidays, easing 'maybe next year'- Galvez

Jamaine Punzalan,

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Published Nov 26, 2020 04:18 PM PHT

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