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Philippines to Ease Capital’s Lockdown, Local Flights Resume
- Duterte allows more businesses to operate from Monday
- Curbs to be eased despite record rise in Covid-19 cases
An employee sanitizes an escalator inside Megaworld Corp.'s Uptown Mall in Metro Manila on May 20.
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said restrictions in the capital region will be further eased from June 1, allowing the reopening of most businesses and transport including local flights despite a record rise in daily infections.
Metro Manila and three surrounding regions will be placed under a so-called “general community quarantine” -- where strict stay-at-home orders are lifted, except for the young and the elderly, Duterte said in a televised briefing in Manila late Thursday. The rest of the country will be placed under a “modified general community quarantine,” which is a transition phase to looser regulations.