The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has downgraded the quarantine status of Iloilo City from modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ).
Starting on Friday, Oct. 1, the city will be under general community quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced on Thursday night, Sept. 30.
The city’s new classification will be in effect until Oct.31.
Mayor Jerry Treñas was delighted that finally the city “graduated from the MECQ-ECQ-MECQ phase after 4 months.
“Let us continue to observe the minimum health protocols so that we will remain under lower classification so that more economic activities can be allowed and more will be given employment,” he said.
Meanwhile, the province of Iloilo will remain under MECQ, the second most restrictive quarantine classification in the country, until Oct. 15.
As of Sept. 30, the city has 1,863 active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while Iloilo province has 5,600 active cases, the highest in the whole Western Visayas.
Other areas in the region that will be placed under GCQ with heightened restrictions are Bacolod City and Capiz.
Aklan, Antique, Guimaras, and Negros Occidental will be under GCQ.IMT
