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The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon covers the island of Luzon and its outlying islands, or eight out of seventeen regions of the Philippines. An indefinite enhanced community quarantine, was imposed in Caraga, alternatively known as One Shield Caraga, started on April 7, [39] and in the Davao Region [40] which took effect on April 4. [40]
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.
Regional quarantines [a]; Region [b] Island group Start date [c] Est. pop. [d] Metro Manila Luzon: March 17, 2020 13,600,000 Cordillera 1,800,000 Ilocos Region 5,200,000
On March 15, 2020, the Film Development Council of the Philippines ordered the stopping of the production of film, television and other audio-visual content during the community quarantine. [171] CNN Philippines stopped its operations for a moment on March 18 after a positive COVID-19 patient entered the building premises where their office is ...
The IATF-EID convened in January 2020 to address the growing viral outbreak in Wuhan, China. [5] They made a resolution to manage the spreading of the new virus, [5] which was known at the time as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and eventually renamed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19. [6]
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines gaming regulator will cancel the licenses of offshore gambling firms, most of them Chinese owned, and will work with law enforcement agencies to completely stamp ...
Similarly, local governments outside Luzon and Metro Manila have imposed various measures to limit the spread of the virus in their communities. By mid-2020, most of the Philippines were placed in a more relaxed and centralized general community quarantine (GCQ), although certain parts of the country remained with stricter measures.
The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with geography that makes it vulnerable to typhoons, floods, volcanos, earthquakes and droughts.