LOOK: Manila's tough Covid-19 lockdown - BBC News Philippines

Now to the Philippines where the lockdown of the capital city, Metro-Manila, has passed the duration of China’s Wuhan, they city where the Covid-19 pandemic began. Today marks 77 days of police and army-backed travel and curfew restrictions for 13 million residents of Manila; making it one of the longest and toughest lockdowns in the world. But with hundreds of new nationwide Covid-19 cases still being recorded daily have the strict measures helped to curb the disease? (this report published before the easing of restrictions under GCQ).

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