A Filipino Catholic prays outside a closed church on Maundy Thursday amid the enforcement of home quarantine to contain the coronavirus disease , in Manila April 9, 2020. — Reuters picMANILA, March 21 — Churches in Manila will be closed, eating inside restaurants banned and leisure travel outside the Philippine capital curbed under new coronavirus rules unveiled today as the country battles a resurgence in infections.
“We have two goals: to reduce the transmission of the virus in Metro Manila and avoid the spread of the virus, especially of the new variants, outside Metro Manila because we know these are more transmissible,” presidential spokesman Harry Roque said. But non-essential trips in and out of the targeted region are prohibited — a blow to already struggling tourism operators looking forward to the Easter holidays when many Filipinos flock to the country’s beaches and mountains.
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