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'Low risk' areas to be placed under modified general community quarantine: Palace

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Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/05/12/20200511-lockdown-quarantine-jc-99.jpg"/><figcaption>A barricade is set up to block the entrance to Banawe Street in Quezon City on May 11, 2020. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA <strong>(UPDATE)</strong>- The entire Philippines will remain under community quarantine, albeit in different levels, until the end of May, Malacañang clarified Wednesday.</p><p>Areas classified as &quot;low risk&quot; for the coronavirus outbreak by the government&#x27;s inter-agency task force (IATF) on pandemic response will be placed under modified general community quarantine starting May 16, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said. </p><p>Año said the task force would amend its May 11 resolution that stated that areas classified as &quot;low risk&quot; for the coronavirus outbreak would be &quot;no longer under community quarantine&quot; by May 16.</p><p>The resolution declared 37 provinces, and 11 cities, including the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, as &quot;low risk&quot; areas which &quot;shall no longer be under community quarantine, without prejudice to strict observation of minimum health standards.&quot;</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UqR0x5NtsJE?enablejsapi=1"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>An amendment will come as local officials expressed apprehensions on the total lifting of community quarantine protocols in their area, Año said.</p><p>&quot;Wala na po tayong area under Pilipinas na walang community quarantine,&quot; Año said in a Palace press briefing.</p><p>(All areas of the Philippines will have community quarantines.)</p><p>Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, whose signature was in the resolution, said there was an &quot;honest mistake&quot; as to the part that the community quarantine would be lifted in some areas.</p><p>Implementing a modified general community quarantine will allow local officials to keep powers to contain the spread of the virus in their respective jurisdictions, Año said.</p><p>&quot;Magkakaroon pa rin ang ating local chief executives ng guideline paano nila ipapatupad ang modified GCQ para sa ganun ay may magagamit siyang kapangyarihan para matigil ang pag-spread ng virus sa mga lugar na meron pa,&quot; he added.</p><p>(Our local chief executives will have a guidelines how to implement a modified GCQ so that they can still have powers to contain the spread of the virus.)<br/> <br/>The following are the areas earlier classified as &quot;low-risk&quot;:</p><p>Region I - entire region</p><ul>	<li>Ilocos Norte*</li>	<li>Ilocos Sur</li>	<li>La Union*</li>	<li>Pangasinan*</li>	<li>Dagupan City*</li></ul><p>*Region IV-B - entire region</p><ul>	<li>Marinduque</li>	<li>Occidental Mindoro</li>	<li>Oriental Mindoro</li>	<li>Palawan</li>	<li>Puerto Princesa City</li>	<li>Romblon </li></ul><p>*Region V - entire region</p><ul>	<li>Albay*</li>	<li>Camarines Norte</li>	<li>Camarines Sur</li>	<li>Catanduanes</li>	<li>Masbate</li>	<li>Sorsogon</li>	<li>Legazpi City*</li>	<li>Naga City</li></ul><p>*Region VI - entire region</p><ul>	<li>Aklan</li>	<li>Antique</li>	<li>Capiz</li>	<li>Guimaras</li>	<li>Iloilo </li>	<li>Iloilo City </li>	<li>Negros Occidental </li>	<li>Bacolod City</li></ul><p>*Region VIII - entire region</p><ul>	<li>Biliran</li>	<li>Eastern Samar</li>	<li>Leyte</li>	<li>Tacloban City</li>	<li>Northern Samar</li>	<li>Southern Leyte</li>	<li>Western Samar</li>	<li>Ormoc City</li></ul><p>*Region X - entire region</p><ul>	<li>Bukidnon</li>	<li>Camiguin</li>	<li>Lanao del Norte</li>	<li>Misamis Occidental </li>	<li>Misamis Oriental </li>	<li>Cagayan de Oro City</li></ul><p>*Region XII - entire region</p><ul>	<li>Cotabato (North Cotabato) </li>	<li>Sarangani</li>	<li>South Cotabato</li>	<li>General Santos City</li>	<li>Sultan Kudarat</li></ul><p>*Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao - entire region </p><ul>	<li>Basilan</li>	<li>Lanao del Sur</li>	<li>Maguindanao</li>	<li>Sulu</li>	<li>Tawi-tawi</li>	<li>Cotabato City</li></ul><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UqR0x5NtsJE?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></div>

<p>The entire Philippines will remain under community quarantine, albeit in different levels, until the end of May, Malacañang clarified Wednesday.</p>

The entire Philippines will remain under community quarantine, albeit in different levels, until the end of May, Malacañang clarified Wednesday.

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'Low risk' areas to be placed under modified general community quarantine: Palace

Arianne Merez,

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Published May 13, 2020 01:13 PM PHT

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Updated May 13, 2020 02:49 PM PHT

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