(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Manila maintains "general community quarantine" until the end of February

  China News Agency, Manila, January 29 (Reporter Guan Xiangdong) On January 29 local time, Philippine Presidential Spokesperson Harry Rock stated that President Duterte approved Manila, the capital of the country, and Davao City, the capital of Mindanao, to maintain “general communities”. Quarantine” (GCQ) until February 28.

The travel ban on more than 30 countries and regions in order to curb the spread of the variant new coronavirus in the country will expire after January 31.

  Locke said that Batangas, Lanao del Sur, Davao Norte province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Tacloban and Iligan are also implementing GCQ.

The rest of the country will continue to implement the least restrictive modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ).

  On the same day, Rock said on the Philippine state-owned television station PTV-4 that there is no conclusive data showing that the variant new crown virus has been circulating in the country.

  On January 13, the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) jointly announced that a 29-year-old Filipino who entered the United Arab Emirates from the United Arab Emirates on the 7th tested positive for the new coronavirus variant.

  On January 23, the Philippine Ministry of Health notified that 17 people had been confirmed to be infected with the variant new coronavirus.

  On January 29, the Philippine Ministry of Health notified that the country’s variants of the new crown virus were mainly infected in the Bongdu and Cordillera administrative regions of Takayama Province.

In the previous three days, the authorities had sampled and tested more than 2,000 close contacts in Takayama Province. Among the 368 close contacts in the Cordillera administrative region, 233 have received polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, of which 57 were positive. 135 people were negative and 41 people have yet to get results.

  According to data from the Ministry of Health of the Philippines, as of January 29, the Philippines has a total of 521,413 confirmed cases, 10,600 deaths, and 475,755 recovered cases.

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