For now, it's likely that Manila will remain under GCQ for at least months or might be revert back to ECQ if the numbers of confirmed cases will still grow in the next few days.
I doubt GCQ would take that long to remain. Currently, we can see the number of positive COVID-19 increasing everyday hence by the mid June there could be an announcement that Metro Manila will shift back to ECQ and will begin again the 2nd wave of hopeless flattening the curve.
Yes, mid-June, either no status changed or revert back to MECQ
(or much stricter than ECQ according to Palace spokesperson).And because of that, large sports activities such as basketball will not likely to resume. It was only allowed in MGCQ as I also mentioned above. There is no way PH will follow other countries just because they resumed their respective leagues unless PBA will spend money dedicated for resuming a league in an area outside Manila with the same practice as the NBA did.
Sounds hassle so better just cancel the league for good and restart the season next year. Only a single game played this All-Filipino conference unlike in NBA that they are now are approaching the playoffs so a resume is a must and they are truly capable of doing that as they have lots of money to cover the operations. They also have several options for a venue unlike here in PH.
As I'm trying to be positive, it's difficult to imagine that the curve will flatten until next month.
Possibly it will happen but I doubt the government will think about that since declaration for shifting to ECQ is so expensive and the funds of government is draining due to the past ECQ's and lock downs. I think the government have plans for tackling up on how to get back those businesses in new format since if they will not do a counteraction for economy matters for sure all of us will get affected on worse crisis.
But as planned given I think PBA will start soon and I think the proper way for them to not cause any problem is to isolate their players and they should not let the outsiders come near close to them so that their will be no contamination or infection will happen while they are on live playing.
On-point and I agree. The decision is really crucial.
What left is, we need to know at least what's the plan of PBA so that we can discuss here not entirely just out of our own view. Surely, there are already plans before the announcement that will be made in August.