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    Photos: Good Friday and COVID-19 lockdown empty Manila's streets

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    Photos: Good Friday and COVID-19 lockdown empty Manila's streets

    Roads were eerily quiet, churches deserted after religious gatherings were prohibited


    Published:  April 02, 2021 14:26 AP  and  Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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    Manila: Filipinos marked Good Friday, one of the most solemn holidays in Asia's largest Roman Catholic nation, with deserted streets and churches following a strict lockdown to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Image Credit: AP
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    The Manila City Hall stands beside an almost empty road. | Major highways and roads were eerily quiet after religious gatherings were prohibited in metropolitan Manila and four outlying provinces. The government placed the bustling region of more than 25 million people back under lockdown this week as it scrambled to contain an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases. Image Credit: AP
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    An almost empty Quezon Boulevard. | Police-enforced curfews in the capital region and the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal were expanded to 11 hours starting at 6 pm. Image Credit: AP
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    An almost empty Welcome Rotonda roundabout. | The Philippines has imposed some of the world's longest police- and military-enforced coronavirus quarantines and lockdowns, which caused the economy last year to contract by 9.5%, the worst economic setback since the Philippines began issuing such economic data just after World War II. Image Credit: AP
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    It has started to reopen the battered economy after infections began to taper off and allowed non-essential businesses to resume, including shopping malls, video game arcades and beauty shops, to ease unemployment and hunger. Image Credit: AP
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    Motorist traverse an almost empty Commonwealth Avenue. | But infections surged back alarmingly last month in spikes blamed on the spread of new coronavirus variants, increased public mobility and complacency. Image Credit: AP
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    Devotees walk outside the closed Quiapo church. | President Rodrigo Duterte reimposed a lockdown in the country's most populous region this week, allowing only workers in essential businesses, government security and health personnel and residents on urgent errands to leave home. Image Credit: AP
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    The lockdown may be extended beyond Easter if the surge does not ease, officials said. Image Credit: AP
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    The spike and a sluggish start of the vaccination program have brought Duterte's administration under fire for what critics say was its failed handling of the pandemic. Image Credit: AP
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    Empty roads in Manila. | The Philippines has reported more than 756,000 confirmed cases with 13,303 deaths, the second highest in Southeast Asia after Indonesia. Image Credit: AP

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