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The Great Lockdown has been used to refer to a number of topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic which occurred in 2020: The pandemic as a whole COVID-19 lockdowns
According to graphical representation presented by ADB in the publication, the GDP impact of the outbreak in the Philippines would be about between 0.0 and -0.5 percentage of the GDP in a best-case scenario while in a worst-case scenario, it would be around slightly near −0.5 percentage of the GDP with a hypothetical worst-case impact of ...
On March 12, 2020, President Duterte announced a partial lockdown covering the entirety of Metro Manila that was later put into place on March 15. [22] 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 ...
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]
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of President Duterte's partial lockdown on the region on March 16 and the enhanced community quarantine on Luzon that superseded it impacts heavily on the Philippine economy as a whole.
On 21 April, the United Nations World Food Programme warned that a famine "of biblical proportions" was expected in several parts of the world as a result of the pandemic. [ 418 ] [ 419 ] The release of 2020 Global Report on Food Crises indicated that 55 countries were at risk, [ 420 ] with David Beasley estimating that in a worst-case scenario ...
The pandemic has resulted in the largest amount of shutdowns/lockdowns worldwide at the same time in history. [citation needed] By 26 March, 1.7 billion people worldwide were under some form of lockdown, [438] which increased to 3.9 billion people by the first week of April — more than half of the world's population. [439] [440]
The Philippine economy contracted by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2020, for the first time since 1998, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown. [196] Fitch Ratings downgraded its outlook on the Philippines to factor in the impact of the global health crisis brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). [197]