PRESIDENTIAL Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. on Friday, September 10, 2021, said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has provisionally approved the implementation of a new system of granular lockdowns in Metro Manila in another attempt to curb the rapid transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Under this new system, alert levels will be assigned to each area and there will be only two quarantine classifications — enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and general community quarantine (GCQ).
The general guidelines for the pilot implementation of this new system are: