{"id":8780,"date":"2020-08-06T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:00:02","slug":"lotto-resumes-ticket-sales-in-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/lotto-resumes-ticket-sales-in-philippines","title":{"rendered":"Lotto resumes ticket sales in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Operations will return only in areas under general community quarantine and modified general community quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines.- The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has announced that Lotto operations, including ticket sales, will resume today (August 7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Operations will only be allowed in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ) and modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will include not only draws but also ticket sales for lotto 6\/42, Mega Lotto 6\/45, Super Lotto 6\/49, Grand Lotto 6\/55 and Ultra Lotto 6\/58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PCSO general manager Royina Garma said the agency&#8217;s games in areas under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), as well as Small town lottery operations, would remain suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, the PSCO had only begun <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pcso-lotto-draws-return-in-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccatch up draws\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for lotto tickets sold before the country entered in quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations will return only in areas under general community quarantine and modified general community quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8782,"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 Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has announced the resumption of Lotto operations, including ticket sales and draws, effective August 7. This operational restart is limited to areas under general community quarantine (GCQ) and modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), while activities in modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) areas and Small Town Lottery remain suspended. This marks a phased return to revenue generation for the state-run gaming vertical following quarantine measures.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, PCSO, Royina Garma","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), gambler_consumer (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"PCSO Safety Protocols?","query":"What are the specific public health and safety protocols implemented by PCSO for ticket sales and draws in GCQ\/MGCQ areas to ensure regulatory compliance and player welfare?"},{"label":"Revenue Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected revenue impact of this partial resumption on PCSO's charitable contributions, and how does it compare to pre-quarantine GGR and NGR levels for the lottery vertical?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,158,16333],"tags":[128,12598],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-philippines","tag-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","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=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}