Prognosis
Philippines Extends Ban on U.K. Flights, Mulls Tighter Curbs
- Travelers who transited through U.K. face 14-day quarantine
- Government is in talks to acquire 80 million vaccine doses
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte extended the ban on U.K. flights by two weeks and said he’s open to reinstating tighter movement curbs if coronavirus infections spike.
Returning to some form of a lockdown “is a possibility if the severity in numbers will demand that we take corrective measures immediately,” the president said at a Saturday meeting of the task force handling the pandemic. The Philippines has Southeast Asia’s second-worst Covid-19 outbreak, with more than 469,000 cases as of Dec. 26.