Tourists walk inside Fort Santiago at the walled-city of Intramuros in Manila, Philippines as some tourist spots reopen to the public with health restrictions since Thursday (Sept 16, 2021). The govt started the pilot run of granular or more localized lockdowns starting Thursday in the capital as they try to open up the economy while controlling the surge of Covid-19 infections. - AP
MANILA, Sept. 17 (Xinhua): The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 20,336 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the South-East Asian country to 2,324,475.
The DOH also reported 310 coronavirus-related deaths, raising the country's death toll to 36,328. The active cases stand at 188,108.
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