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MMDA: No agreement among Metro mayors to extend ECQ

August 14, 2021

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MMDA Chairman Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos

The Metro Manila mayors have not agreed to extend the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) until August 30, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said on Saturday.

MMDA Chairman Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. said that there was no truth on the news report quoting Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez that all the metro mayors have agreed for the extension of the ECQ.

Abalos said he talked with Olivarez to confirm the news.

The MMDA chief said that Olivarez refuted the article, adding that no meeting among Metro mayors occurred.

Abalos said that the mayors are now focused on monitoring the number of Covid-19 cases on their respective jurisdictions, vaccination rollout, and distribution of ayuda or financial aid to low-income families affected by the ECQ which will last until August 20.

“Any recommendation that will be made by the MMC shall be based on data, local government units capabilities, and experts’ [health and economic] studies,” Abalos stressed in a statement.

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Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco

Claudeth Mocon-Ciriaco is a grant recipient and fellow of 2017 media fellowship program by Probe Media Foundation Inc. She is a graduate of Bachelor of Mass Communication from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM). After graduating in 2000 she immediately worked as a newspaper correspondent for Today Newspaper until 2005. Within those five years in Today Newspaper, she was assigned to cover the Eastern Police and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Rizal Province, and the Departments of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and Tourism (DOT). In October of 2005, she became a correspondent for the Philippine Business Daily Mirror Publishing, Inc. She covers Health, Education, MMDA, the local government units in the eastern and southern portions of the metropolis, and Rizal Province.

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