Palace clarifies: No total and absolute lockdown, just community quarantine 44 SHARES Share it! According to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, the government will still finalize the guidelines such as the exemptions to the month-long community quarantine and domestic travel restrictions to and from Metro Manila. The Philippine National Police will likely establish checkpoints in Metro Manila borders to implement the community quarantine, according to Nograles. The President, in his public address late Thursday, admitted that the community quarantine in Metro Manila was nothing but a lockdown. “For Manila, may ‘ayaw naming gamitin ‘yan,’ pero kasi takot kayong sabihing lockdown, but it’s a lockdown.

Source: Manila Bulletin March 13, 2020 02:34 UTC