(MALACANANG PHOTO) It may be too early to shift purely to granular lockdown in Metro Manila at this time as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases remain high, the OCTA Research said on Friday, Aug. 27. "One of the things we struggle in a large city like Manila is we cannot really control mobility in...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered all police commanders to coordinate with their respective Local Government Units (LGUs) for the preparations of protocols that would be enforced for the possible implementation of the granular lockdown. While the...
A breath of fresh air during trying times. This seems to be the public’s general sentiment after a policy shift to granular instead of wide-scale lockdowns in areas with high coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infections is being mulled in September. If approved by the President, more people can...
Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi ordered barangay captains to strengthen the use of isolation facilities and implementation of prevent-detect-isolate-treat-reintegrate (PDITR) strategy to stem the rising number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the city. He convened city officials and...
Adapting to the changing times, the country may shift to granular instead of wide-scale lockdowns by September in the continuing efforts to slow down the transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said Friday,...
Pateros, the smallest local government unit (LGU) in Metro Manila, has seven Delta variant cases among its rising coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tally. This was according to a report presented by Dr. Alethea de Guzman, director of the Department of Health (DOH) Epidemiology Bureau, during an online...
Malacañang said the government's pandemic task force was now "moving towards" the direction of granular or localized lockdowns as these were more effective compared to the regular quarantine classifications that the public has grown accustomed to. Members of the Philippine National Police man a...
The Muntinlupa City government has ordered a granular lockdown in a subdivision, the ninth area to be placed under extreme quarantine since Aug. 10 due to the rising number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Mayor Jaime Fresnedi imposed a 15-day Extreme Localized Community Quarantine (ELCQ)...
A residential building in Muntinlupa is now under granular lockdown due to clustering of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Mayor Jaime Fresnedi placed under a 15-day Extreme Localized Community Quarantine (ELCQ) the Building 2 of the BLISS (Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services) Complex in Brgy....
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is all set for the strict implementation of granular lockdowns after the National Capital Region (NCR) eased to modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) on Saturday, Aug. 21. Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, Chief of the Philippine National Police (File photo...
Expect local government units (LGUs) to get really serious with granular lockdowns during the upcoming modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos said the granular lockdown will...
The Muntinlupa City government has placed five more areas under lockdown due to the increasing number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Mayor Jaime Fresnedi imposed a 14-day Extreme Localized Community Quarantine (ELCQ) in the five areas in Katarungan Village, a housing project of the...
