MANILA, Philippines — Reimposing strict lockdown measures is “a possibility” should the new COVID-19 strain from the United Kingdom feared to be more infectious enters and spreads into the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte said Saturday.
“Actually, iyong lockdown is a possibility. I said we are making some projections but if the severity in number would demand that we take corrective measures immediately, then we just have to go back to lockdown,” Duterte said in a meeting with members of his Cabinet and infectious disease experts.
“Pagkarumami sila with the new strain, and in the meantime that we are not able to confront them effectively, I mean the virus, well just have to…
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