{"id":264443,"date":"2020-08-07T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264443"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:00:57","slug":"ano-hopeful-of-mecq-lifting-to-reopen-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/07\/ano-hopeful-of-mecq-lifting-to-reopen-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u00f1o hopeful of MECQ lifting to reopen economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_264446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264446\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/44429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264446 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/44429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/44429.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/44429-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/44429-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/44429-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Police officers check vehicles along Emilio Aguinaldo Highway in Cavite at a checkpoint as authorities impose a stricter inspection at the start of the modified enhanced community quarantine anew on Tuesday (Aug. 4, 2020). 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Escaros Jr.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o on Friday expressed hope that the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) over the National Capital Region and nearby provinces will not be extended beyond August 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully not as we also want to reopen the economy,&#8221; he told reporters in Filipino on the sidelines of the turnover ceremony of 1,000 motorcycle barriers donated by ride-hailing firm Angkas in Camp Crame, Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00f1o said the government is always doing its best to find a balance between protecting public health and reviving the economy.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported that the country&#8217;s economy contracted at a record pace of 16.5 percent in the second quarter of 2020 due to the impact of the health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He, meanwhile, expressed optimism that Covid-19 infection rates will eventually go down during the 15-day MECQ.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, A\u00f1o appealed to the public to comply with the MECQ health protocols so that the virus&#8217; 14-day incubation period will be observed safely without adding new human hosts to the infection tally.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Metro Manila, the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal are under MECQ to arrest the further spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o on Friday expressed hope that the modified enhanced community &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":264446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264447,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264443\/revisions\/264447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}