Domestic flights were not allowed in areas under MECQ, according to DOTr official.
Domestic flights were not allowed in areas that were already placed under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), according to an official from the Department of Transportation.
This, as Transportation Assistant Secretary Goddes Hope O. Libiran on Monday responded to online queries hours after President Rodrigo Duterte had placed Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal under a two-week modified enhanced community quarantine starting Tuesday.
According to Libiran, no domestic flights to and from areas under MECQ, adding that international flights would be limited to sweeper flights that were arranged by government agencies and were approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID).
Meanwhile, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque also confirmed Libiran’s response, yet he added that inter-island travel was also banned.
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Libiran’s response came after the Department of Transportation released its guidelines on public and private transport in areas that were under the modified enhanced community quarantine.
Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal were considered as high-risk areas because of an increasing number of COVID-19 cases in those areas.
As of 4:00 p.m. of August 2, 2020, the Department of Health reported 103,185 total number of COVID-19 cases wherein 35,569 were active cases, 65,557 were total recoveries, and 2,059 were total fatalities.
Meanwhile, an official from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that the “earliest time” that the Philippines will have a COVID-19 vaccine was on July 2021.
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