Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 14) — The entire province of Pangasinan will continue to be under an extreme enhanced community quarantine until midnight of April 21, said Governor Amado Espino III in an executive order dated Monday.
Under E.O. No. 0019-2020, “the extreme enhanced community quarantine in the entire province of Pangasinan which is set to expire on the midnight of April 14, 2020 is hereby extended anew up to the midnight of April 21, 2020, or until further declared.”
As of Monday, the province recorded 33 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 9 fatalities.
Supermarkets, public and private wet markets, grocery stores, and other stores engaged in selling basic necessities, will remain operational for a maximum of 12 hours.
The confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country is now at 5,223, including 335 casualties, and 295 recoveries as of Tuesday.
Worldwide, there are over 1.9 million positive COVID-19 cases, and over 119,000 deaths as of Tuesday.
Data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering shows the United States has the most number of cases at over 582,000.
