MANILA, Philippines – Funeral parlors that would refuse to provide services to those who died of COVID-19 will be stripped of their permits, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno warned on Monday. But Manila recently registered a death due to COVID-19, which brought the death toll in the city to two. As of this writing, the whole of Luzon is still under an enhanced community quarantine due to the rising COVID-19 cases. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named the novel coronavirus as SARS-CoV-2. /atmFor more news about the novel coronavirus click here.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 23, 2020 19:41 UTC