{"id":16174,"date":"2021-03-24T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16174"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:53:12","slug":"metro-manila-under-new-restrictions-to-contain-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/metro-manila-under-new-restrictions-to-contain-covid-19-cases","title":{"rendered":"Metro Manila under new restrictions to contain Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Metro Manila, along with four other provinces in The Philippines, will remain under new restrictions until April 4 following a rise in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines.- The government has announced that <strong>Metro Manila will face new restrictions<\/strong> as Covid-19 cases in the country continue to rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Measures inlcuding <strong>a ban on non-essential travel<\/strong> will remain in place in Metro Manila and four other provinces <strong>until April 4<\/strong>. Mass gatherings are prohibited, and there are <strong>new limits on social events<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government said the measures do not represent a new lockdown, but instead &#8220;<strong>put Metro Manila and the other four provinces within a bubble<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Health reported<strong> that many cities in the capital region had seen a 200 per cent rise in Covid-19 cases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early March, President Rodrigo Duterte announced that\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/metro-manila-under-general-community-quarantine-for-march\" target=\"_blank\">general community quarantine (GCQ) measures would remain in force until March 31<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in Metro Manila and nine other areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casino resorts in Metro Manila were <strong>operating at reduced capacity during periods of general community quarantine<\/strong> with strict health measures in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-to-ban-foreign-arrivals-as-covid-19-cases-climb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Foreign visitors are not be allowed to enter&nbsp;the Philippines&nbsp;until April 19<\/a><\/em><strong>.<\/strong> Only credited officials of foreign governments and Filipino workers returning from overseas are allowed to enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Manila, along with four other provinces in The Philippines, will remain under new restrictions until April 4 following a rise in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Metro Manila and four other Philippine provinces will remain under new COVID-19 restrictions until April 4, including a ban on non-essential travel and limits on gatherings, following a significant rise in cases. These measures, while not a full lockdown, will likely prolong operational constraints for land-based casino resorts, which were already at reduced capacity, and the ban on foreign visitors until April 19 will further impact international tourism and integrated resort GGR.","focusai_entities":"Department of Health, President Rodrigo Duterte","focusai_location":"Metro Manila, The Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected impact of these extended restrictions and the foreign visitor ban on the Q2 GGR and NGR for integrated resort operators in Metro Manila, particularly concerning VIP segment contributions?"},{"label":"Operational Contingency","query":"How are land-based casino operators adjusting their operational expenditure and staffing models to mitigate the financial impact of prolonged reduced capacity and international travel restrictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16333],"tags":[17913],"class_list":["post-16174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-metro-manila"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16203,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions\/16203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}