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Philippines.- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 has confirmed the temporary suspension of all POGOs and their service providers (SPs) for the next month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The move comes after the after community quarantine measures imposed by President Rodrigo Duterte as part of efforts to contain the Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The regulator published a statement that said a skeletal workforce at POGO operating sites is no longer allowed and that mass gathering were banned and that employees must stay at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur situation right now is different,\u201d said PAGCOR Chairman and CEO, Andrea Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile revenue generation is important in our operations, the health and well-being being of every Filipino is our immediate priority. By practicing the health protocols recommended by our Health Department, we can all help curb, if not stop the spread of COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Philippines gaming regulator PAGCOR announced on Monday the suspension of all gaming operations after President Rodrigo Duterte imposed a \u201ccommunity quarantine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The suspension applied to land-based casinos, both PAGCOR-owned and operated as well as all licensed and integrated resort-casinos, electronic game (eGames), bingo (traditional and electronic), sports betting, poker and slot machine clubs, and other activities regulated by PAGCOR. The move comes as part of efforts to prevent the further spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has enacted a temporary suspension of all Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), their service providers, and all land-based gaming operations across the Philippines. This decisive action aligns with President Rodrigo Duterte's community quarantine measures, prioritizing public health over immediate revenue generation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The directive mandates a complete cessation of operations, including skeletal workforces, impacting the entire regulated gaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), POGOs, Rodrigo Duterte, Andrea Domingo","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.75), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Loss Impact?","query":"What is the estimated daily\/monthly Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) loss for PAGCOR and affected operators due to this comprehensive suspension?"},{"label":"Force Majeure Invocation?","query":"Which specific force majeure clauses are being invoked by affected operators and their B2B suppliers in response to this government-mandated shutdown?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,158,16333],"tags":[29,7299,405,128],"class_list":["post-4635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-coronavirus","tag-pagcor","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4635"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010512,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4635\/revisions\/777010512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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