Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 6) — The city of Manila has decided to lift its liquor ban on Monday, one week after the National Capital Region was placed under a more relaxed general community quarantine.
Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso issued the executive order lifting the alcohol ban on Saturday night, stressing that selling to minors and drinking in public places are still prohibited.
The city government said the liquor ban imposed on March 28 can now be lifted since the President, upon advice from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), had already downgraded the quarantine status of cities in the National Capital Region.
“Such downgrading of the community quarantine category of the HUCs [Highly-Urbanized Cities] in the NCR would necessarily result in the relaxation of some stringent measures and limitations earlier imposed,” the EO read.
Manila, along with other cities in the country, imposed a temporary liquor ban starting in mid-March to support the government’s programs in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Other local government units have already lifted their restrictions last week, as the country shifted to more relaxed quarantine protocols.
