Duterte's virus defense faces test as Philippines lockdown eases

President takes 'biggest gamble' with shift to general quarantine MANILA -- Wearing face masks, millions in the Philippine capital will emerge from one of the world's longest virus lockdowns on Monday in a test of how well President Rodrigo Duterte built the country's pandemic response.

The 75-year-old leader eased restrictions despite logging the biggest number of daily cases last week, which was due to the resolution of testing backlogs. Community quarantines that started as early as March 15 in Metro Manila bought Duterte nearly 80 days to put up a lockdown system—ranging from the strictest ECQ to a modified GCQ.

"This would very much affect the public's confidence in him mainly because if you think about it, the people who will most likely be affected by the GCQ are the working population, and the small and medium-scale industries,” she told ABS-CBN News.

The virus itself!!! Para sa mga pinoy... matira matibay nalang!!!

Maybe the 'virus defense' is si Batman...'bahala na si Batman' 🤣🤣🤣

The title should be: The people's immune system faces test as Philippines lockdown eases.

Mas mura kasi magpalibing kesa magpa ospital db

excuse me?!? virus defense?!? rodrigo does not have a defense, much less a plan. he's been wasting the emergency powers his minions gave him by being thoroughly lazy & indifferent to us & bias to his clowns. there's no defense - just 'bahala na'.

TVPatrol Laban lang ba to ni Duterte?

nasa Davao sya diba haha

Oh meron?

TVPatrol Does abs want to shut down everything excluding their business?

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