Cebu City accounts for 7,359 of these cases.President Duterte was set to announce on Wednesday whether to extend or downgrade the ECQ status of Cebu City, the only local government still under this quarantine restriction due to the surge of infections last month. ADVERTISEMENTThe study noted that when the city was placed under a more relaxed general community quarantine (GCQ) on June 1, the number of COVID-19 cases doubled. “After all, if you look at the statistics in Cebu City, there has been a high recovery rate. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, director of the Central Visayas police, said he did not want the quarantine restrictions eased as virus cases in Cebu City remained high. In Negros Oriental province, at least 20 soldiers contracted the virus after they were assigned to Cebu City last month.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 14, 2020 20:15 UTC