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Despite a sudden Friday overnight spike in coronavirus cases, the Philippines today (June 1) is modifying what is arguably Asia’s most stringent lockdown in the country’s most populous regions, shifting to a somewhat less restrictive “general community quarantine” and joining a general movement across Southeast Asia as governments feeling the lash of a …
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