Metro Manila lockdown likely to be extended

Police Lt Gen Guillermo Eleazar leads an inspection at a checkpoint on Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, on April 20,2020. - PI

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): Metro Manilans may have to stay home longer after April 30, as the number of new coronavirus infections keeps rising with only 10 days left before the extended Luzon lockdown ends.

President Rodrigo Duterte decides this week whether to extend the lockdown or reduce its enforcement to parts of the island with large numbers of coronavirus infections, his spokesperson Harry Roque said on Monday (April 20).