MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte is appealing to the public to skip parties this Christmas as the threat of COVID-19 was still present.
Duterte apologized that Filipinos would have to spend the holiday season with restrictions.
“As early as now, we saying sorry that there will be a curtailment of so many things you are used to during Christmas time,” Duterte said, speaking partly in Filipino, in a pre-recorded speech on Monday.
“[Of] all of the Christmases of your lifetime, it’s on this one time that the government is asking [this] — for you. It’s for you, not for the government,” he added.
“This is one Christmas, the only Christmas maybe, that the governme…
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