Laguna will be under stricter enhanced community quarantine or ECQ from August 6 to 15, Malacañang announced on August 5 in a bid to control the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19.
Also placed under enhanced community quarantine are Iloilo City and Cagayan de Oro, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. In the same period, Cavite, Lucena, Rizal, and Iloilo province will be under modified enhanced community quarantine or MECQ, he added.
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Meanwhile, the community quarantine in the provinces of Batangas and Quezon were also escalated to general community quarantine with heightened restrictions from August 6 to 15.
The announcement was made a day before neighboring Metro Manila goes into lockdown mode, which will last until August 20.
Authorities have promised to use the lockdowns to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations. So far, some 10 million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated against the virus.
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