THE country does not need to shift to a stricter quarantine lockdown despite the surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases, Malacañang said.

In an interview over state-run Radyo Pilipinas, Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said in Filipino that there is still adequate hospital capacity to treat Covid-19 patients, which would be the government's 'basis for determining whether it is time to change our quarantine classifications'.