Keeping watch: A policeman standing on a road in San Juan City, Metro Manila during the lockdown. The lockdown will be lifted in the capital from tomorrow. — Bloomberg
The country will lift a stay-at-home order in the capital Manila this week as it trials “granular lockdowns”, an official said, in a bid to rein in coronavirus cases and revive the economy.
More than 13 million people in the national capital region – the country’s economic heartland – have been in lockdown since Aug 6 amid record infections fuelled by the hyper-contagious Delta variant.
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