MMDA studying possibility of expanding number coding scheme amid Alert Level 1 recommendation

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, a presidential candidate, leads a caravan of his supporters as campaign season kicks off on Feb. 8, 2022.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Metro Manila Development Authority said its unanimous recommendation Wednesday morning to relax restrictions to Alert Level 1 had nothing to do with the election campaigns happening around the capital region. 

Alert Level 1 is seen to be the final step before entering the "new normal." The MMDA's suggestions are not binding in any way, but President Rodrigo Duterte, himself a former mayor, has historically accepted their recommendations, particularly the ones made unanimously. 

Speaking to reporters at a press briefing Tuesday morning, newly-minted MMDA officer-in-charge Romando Artes said that the COVID-19 numbers in the past two weeks showed that the campaign sorties of candidates had "no significance."

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