Department of Trade and Industry Sec. Ramon Lopez said during a press briefing Thursday, April 15 that the country would keep moving “back and forth” and achieve no real progress against the coronavirus disease if Filipinos can’t refrain from doing non-essential activities outdoors.Lopez, who tested positive for the disease for the second time last March, reiterated the need to stay on guard once the modified enhanced community quarantine is eased over “NCR-plus”.
With this, he encouraged the public to refrain from holding or participating in non-essential gatherings. “Once we move to GCQ , we will continue to prohibit gatherings that are non-essential until such time that we are already confident that we already have herd immunity and a greater population is already vaccinated or if not, once we already discover a more effective medicine for home treatment,” he said.
The secretary also noted that while the reopening of workplaces contributed to the surge of COVID-19 cases in the country, it cannot be considered the “super spreader”. He said that according to data, only around 20 percent of the cluster of COVID-19 cases came from workplaces.
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