There will be conditions because there is a crisis.”ADVERTISEMENT‘Very clear crisis’“The crisis is very, very clear. ‘We fear lockdown’“For Manila, we don’t want to use that because we fear lockdown, but it’s a lockdown” he said. The Department of Health reported five people had died since January, including three it reported on Thursday night. What is sought to be solved here is, again, nothing else except to fight the virus and to exact compliance. The stringent social distancing measures were issued four days after the President declared a state of public health emergency in light of rising cases of COVID-19 infections.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 12, 2020 21:22 UTC