Metro Manila 'ripe' for downgrade to COVID-19 Alert Level 1 — Duque

A worker cleans along the railway tracks of a station in Manila on February 16, 2022.

AFP / Ted Aljibe

MANILA, Philippines — Metro Manila is "ripe" for de-escalation to the lowest COVID-19 alert level, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Thursday as the pandemic task force deliberates on measures that will be enforced next month. 

The inter-agency task force on COVID-19 response is scheduled to discuss this afternoon the recommendation of the Metro Manila Council to downgrade the capital region’s status to the most lenient Alert Level 1.

"Ang NCR ay pasado na sa kanilang mga metrics. Hinog in other words," Duque, who chairs the task force, told state broadcaster People’s Television.

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