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The lockdown was further expanded on March 16, when President Duterte imposed an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) throughout the entire island of Luzon and its associated islands. This was effectively a total lockdown, which had restricted travel and transportation, imposed strict home quarantine among all households, and closed all non ...
On March 12, Duterte announced a partial lockdown covering Metro Manila, [5] that began on March 15. At one point during Duterte's pronouncement about the Metro Manila "community quarantine," he said that "they are afraid to call it a lockdown, but it is a lockdown." [6] [7] This statement left many confused. [8]
Three days later, on February 5, another Chinese national was confirmed to be the third case in the Philippines. [5] After a month, on March 5, the Department of Health (DOH) announced that the first Filipino in the Philippines confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 who is also the fourth case while the fifth case is the first case of local ...
The Philippines' caseload is the second largest in Southeast Asia, where the combined number of infections has surpassed those in China, where the pandemic emerged. Philippines virus cases soar ...
Various sociologists, in analyzing the success of the community pantry movement, have been quick to associate the phenomenon as representations of number of Filipino cultural traits and values, most notably not only the "spirit of bayanihan," [2] reciprocity, [2] and an emphasis on community relations, [2] but also resilience [2] and diskarte.
Being the economic hub of the Philippines, the Metro Manila economy comprises 38.1% of the country's gross domestic product. The imposition of President Duterte's partial lockdown on the region on March 16 and the enhanced community quarantine on Luzon that superseded it impacts heavily on the Philippine economy as a whole.
As of 12 April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90 per cent of the population, are under some form of lockdown in the United States, [441] more than 50 million people are in lockdown in the Philippines, [442] about 59 million people are in lockdown in South Africa, [443] and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown in India. [444] [445]
Through the first quarter of 2020, arts and culture sector organisations around the world progressively restricted their public activities and then closed completely due to the pandemic. Starting with China, East Asia, and then worldwide, by late March most cultural heritage organisations had closed, and arts events were postponed or cancelled ...