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    COVID-19: Star Wars fans help maintain social distancing in Manila

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    COVID-19: Star Wars fans help maintain social distancing in Manila

    Local youth group dons homemade Star Wars outfits to remind residents to stay at home

    Published:  May 06, 2020 22:35 Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor
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    Manila: A Philippines suburb is getting help from a galaxy far, far away to enforce its virus lockdown - Darth Vader and a retinue of stormtroopers, whose patrols are drawing smiles from locals weary of weeks of quarantine. Image Credit: AFP
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    Three times a week, members of a local youth group don their homemade Star Wars outfits to do their rounds of Panghulo in the capital Manila to remind people to stay in their homes to help halt the contagion's spread. Image Credit: AFP
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    On one patrol, AFP saw Darth Vader striding into a silent courtyard followed by the white-armoured stormtroopers holding blaster rifles and scanning for anyone breaking the lockdown order that has confined the city's 12 million people to their homes since mid-March. Image Credit: AFP
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    Another mission saw them being rowed through the flooded streets on the lookout for those sneaking outside, dodging the electricity lines that sagged overhead. Image Credit: AFP
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    "We made the costumes... to ease the stress and worries of children and their families," said Alexandria Ignacio, one of the group's members. Image Credit: AFP
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    The locals are happy to see something new in the deserted streets - even if it is the Empire's feared stormtroopers. Image Credit: AFP
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    "We want them to continue," said local Loida Lumagas. "We also need a little amusement." Image Credit: AFP
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    Local youth representatives dressed Stormtroopers and Darth Vader (L-in black) from the Star Wars film franchise patrol in wooden boats around a submerged village to remind residents to stay at home during the enhanced community quarantine in suburban Manila on May 6, 2020, as part of government's efforts to combat the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Image Credit: AFP

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