After a Year with Coronavirus
A year has passed since Manila, the capital and principal city of the Philippines imposed a curfew
The Philippines is confronting yet another surge in Covid-19 cases after a year authorities enforced a stringent lockdown
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A year has passed since Manila, the capital and principal city of the Philippines imposed a curfew to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on May 15th last year. Despite the effort of the government, the country has been terribly affected by the virus and remains to be the second-highest infection rate in Southeast Asia. As a result, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth rate for the previous year is the worst among the countries in Southeast Asia, giving more challenges for the current administration.
A checkpoint enforced by the PNP Police Regional Office 3, commons.wikimedia.org
Philippine President Duterte’s administration introduced preventive measures against the spread of the new coronavirus, including restrictions on business activities, and a general order for its citizen to stay-at-home in major cities around Metro Manila. The number of new infections confirmed daily across the country has been on the rise since the end of last month, with the number of infections exceeding 4,500 in just three days up to the 14th of this month. Despite the restrictions and lockdown, health officials in the country are still struggling to contain the pandemic.
President Duterte updates the nation in Davao City, commons.wikimedia.org by Joey Dalumpines
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations have pointed out that this is due to Filipinos not following health safety protocols, a large number of people living in a single house, and insufficient cluster control by health authorities. The continued restrictions on business activities in Manila, the economic center of the Philippines, has dwindled the economy and halted the country’s economic growth prior to the pandemic. The decline of the growth rate of the country’s GDP for the past year was -9.5%, the largest decline since 1946, when statistics were first collected, and the worst among major countries in Southeast Asia.
Restrictions on businesses, commons.wikimedia.org donated by Judge Florentino Floro
The Duterte administration is facing a mountain of challenges concerning countermeasures against the new coronavirus, and its effect on the country’s economy.
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