Ads
related to: 2 week trip to the philippines quarantine
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On July 15, quarantine measures continued to ease as Cebu City shifted to MECQ. Metro Manila remains under GCQ for another two weeks. Other areas under GCQ includes the provinces of Agusan del Norte, Basilan, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, and Southern Leyte, as well as the cities of Butuan, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, Ormoc, and Zamboanga.
The implementation of an enhanced community quarantine in the Davao Region was announced on April 2, 2020. [89] The quarantine began at 9:00 pm of April 4 and has no scheduled end date. [89] As of April 2, there were already at least 61 confirmed cases in the region, 49 of which were recorded in Davao City. [89]
[2] Travel restrictions reduced the spread of the virus, but because they were first implemented after community spread had established in several countries in distant parts of the world—they produced only a modest reduction in the total number of people infected. Travel restrictions may be most important at the start and end of the pandemic. [3]
Mega Ligtas COVID Centers, [1] also known as Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facilities (TTMFs), [2] are temporary non-hospital health facilities or emergency patient care centers established and managed by the Philippine government to accommodate COVID-19 patients at a provincial or regional level as part of its efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
Calabarzon was under the scope of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon imposed by the national government from March 16, 2020. [13] On May 16, Calabarzon (except Laguna) was downgraded to general community quarantine (GCQ). [14] On August 1, Lipa was placed under a 15-day lockdown and the province of Batangas was placed under GCQ. [15]
The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Philippines was recorded in Metro Manila on January 30, 2020. It involved a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the origin of the disease, who arrived in Manila after travelling to Cebu City and Dumaguete in central Philippines from Hong Kong. [5]