Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez issued on Saturday, March 13 an executive order adopting a resolution that implements the same curfew hours across Metro Manila.
Olivarez said the city adopted the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Resolution No. 21-03 S. 2021 setting the standardized and unified curfew hour in the National Capital Region (NCR) from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting March 15 until March 31.
Olivarez said the Metro Manila Council (MMC), composed of 17 Metro Manila mayors, convened to set a unified curfew hour in NCR on March 11.due to the continued increase of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases
On March 10, Olivarez issued an executive order adjusting the curfew hour in Paranaque City from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
He said that recent COVID-19 data shows that beginning March, in comparison to February, the NCR continues to have a relatively high number of daily new infections.
The mayor said that based on the recommendation of the Department of Health and other health professionals, as well as further considering the borderless and contiguous geographic area of NCR, there is an urgent need to regulate the movement of people within and around Metro Manila in order to prevent an increase in the number of active COVID-19 cases.
Olivarez said that in order to forestall a rise, the Metro Manila mayors deemed to adopt the following measures within their respective jurisdiction by enforcing curfew hours, impose granular lockdown, strict implementation of health protocols and standards, intensified testing, contact tracing, and isolation.
He said all local chief executives on March 11 agreed to enact their respective executive orders and or adopt their respective ordinances for the proper implementation of the curfew hour.
The mayor said that exemptions may be granted to the owners, operators, and/or employees of medical/health care/emergency service, public utility vehicles, food delivery, convenience stores, restaurants, business process outsourcing, wholesale markets and delivery and other similar or related essential personnel and services.
The local government units will also determine who are exempted from the uniform curfew in Metro Manila, he added.