No one ‘hair’ today: Barbers waiting for customers as they reopen their shop after the government allowed some business establishments to operate with health restrictions in Quezon city. — AFP
Restaurants, salons and other small businesses in the Philippine capital region reopened after being shut for weeks, as the government shifts to localised lockdowns from wide-scale mobility controls in a bid to revive the pandemic-hit economy.
The targeted lockdown approach being piloted in Metro Manila, an urban sprawl of 16 cities and home to 13 million people, may be replicated in other parts of the country if it proves successful in boosting business activity while keeping the spread of coronavirus in check.
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