The alliance of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and vice presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has asked its supporters to postpone their planned caravans following the escalation of Metro Manila's quarantine alert level status. Marcos Jr. and Duterte-Carp
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City government of the Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) (Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN)
IGACOS is part of Davao del Norte province which is currently under General Community Quarantine until February 28. Under the IATF’s Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines, establishments in tourism industries are not allowed to operate.
However, in a phone interview, Information Officer Michael Anthony Homez said the local government received the reply of the IATF on February 19 allowing resorts to operate for tourism.
“We wrote the IATF in the second week of January to allow tourism to operate but it was denied. We wrote to them again and fortunately last week they replied,” he said.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque
Roque explained the President is merely looking after the health of the youth especially in the face of the threat of the new coronavirus variant.
In a televised address Monday night, the President reversed an order of his officials allowing kids as young as 10 years old to go out of their houses in areas under the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). Duterte told the children 10 to 14 years old to stay at home to avoid getting infected by the UK coronavirus variant.
The resolution of the Inter-Agency Task Force For the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) on relaxing the age restrictions for people allowed to go out was supposed to take effect next month in an effort to stimulate economy activity in the country. Prior to the IATF decision, the government only allowed persons aged 15 to 65 to go outside.