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The Philippines’ Covid Crisis: Leadership Debacle
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The Philippines’ Covid Crisis: Leadership Debacle

Duterte’s thuggishness combines with subordinates’ incompetence to produce a perfect storm

Our Correspondent
Aug 6, 2020
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On July 22, Korean Air Lines, which operates flights daily from Manila to Seoul and other destinations, announced that from that date forward all passengers would be required to present a negative nasal swab test for the Coronavirus because “many passengers” from the Philippines were turning up positive. Other airlines have since followed suit.

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