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Philippines extends capital’s coronavirus lockdown to May 15

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Philippines extends capital's coronavirus lockdown to May 15Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has extended until May 15 a lockdown in the capital Manila, his spokesman said on Friday, stretching to eight weeks one of the world’s strictest community quarantines to curb coronavirus infections. The measures will be expanded to other regions with big outbreaks but modified in lower-risk areas, which would see a partial resumption of work, transport and commerce, Harry Roque told reporters. Television broadcast images on Friday of a crisis panel meeting where Duterte had made the decision late the previous day.

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