PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has approved a recommendation to revert the National Capital Region (NCR) back to the general community quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions until the end of the month, Malacañang said on Friday.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. made the announcement as the Department of Health (DoH) confirmed on Thursday night the local transmission of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) that was first detected in India.

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