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riversedge

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Tue Mar 30, 2021, 06:39 AM Mar 2021

Manila Locks Down as COVID-19 Cases Surge in the Philippines







Manila Locks Down as COVID-19 Cases Surge in the Philippines

Millions of Filip
inos will spend their second straight Easter Sunday under lockdown in an effort to stop a record surge of COVID-19 infections.

https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/manila-locks-down-as-covid-19-cases-surge-in-the-philippines/

By Nick Aspinwall March 29, 2021


Empty streets around the Ortigas Center in the Philippine capital Manila during the community quarantine, March 18, 2020.
Credit: Flickr/Asian Development Bank

The Philippine government said Saturday it will put Manila and several neighboring provinces under a strict lockdown for one week due to a rise in COVID-19 cases.

The new restrictions come more than a year after the country instituted one of the world’s strictest and longest lockdowns in its capital region.

Metro Manila and the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal will be subjected to strict movement restrictions, an indoor dining ban and an 11-hour curfew from Monday, March 29 to Sunday, April 4, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Saturday.

The lockdown will run as the predominantly Catholic country celebrates Holy Week, culminating in Easter Sunday. For the second straight year, religious gatherings will be banned, along with indoor gatherings with people from outside the immediate household.

Roque said there would be a “heightened presence” of police and military to enforce lockdown restrictions and that the government would go door-to-door to search for people with COVID-19 symptoms, a practice which has raised the ire of human rights groups.

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Manila Locks Down as COVID-19 Cases Surge in the Philippines (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2021 OP
It's the most densely-populated city on Earth, I think. Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #1

Buckeye_Democrat

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1. It's the most densely-populated city on Earth, I think.
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 07:06 AM
Mar 2021

The extreme precautions there don't surprise me too much.

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