Metro Manila to start curfews as deaths rise to six

Mayors of Metro Manila’s 16 cities announced night-time curfews on Saturday and urged shopping malls to close for one month, in a bid to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, as the Philippines reported its sixth death.

President Rodrigo Duterte has raised the country’s health emergency status to the highest level and issued quarantine measures in the capital, home to 12 million people.