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Duterte Warns of New Lockdown Amid Delta

President Rodrigo Duterte warned of potential new lockdowns in the Philippines if the Delta variant of COVID-19 causes a surge in cases, despite stating that the country cannot afford more lockdowns. The Delta variant is currently spreading in Southeast Asia, with 119 known cases in the Philippines, though actual numbers may be higher due to limited sequencing. The government has implemented travel bans to prevent further transmission of the variant.

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Duterte Warns of New Lockdown Amid Delta

President Rodrigo Duterte warned of potential new lockdowns in the Philippines if the Delta variant of COVID-19 causes a surge in cases, despite stating that the country cannot afford more lockdowns. The Delta variant is currently spreading in Southeast Asia, with 119 known cases in the Philippines, though actual numbers may be higher due to limited sequencing. The government has implemented travel bans to prevent further transmission of the variant.

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Duterte warns of new lockdown if Delta variant causes surge in COVID-19 cases
JUL 26, 2021 8:10 PM PHT
BONZ MAGSAMBOL
MANILA, PHILIPPINES4
However, the President's public address – which ran for nearly three hours – fails to mention the government's game plan against the Delta variant
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 26, warned of a new lockdown if the highly-transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant spreads in the country.
Delta (variant), if ever it will spread.... If something wrong happens, I have to be strict and I have now my word that there will be, just like what
happened in the early days," Duterte said in his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA).
Despite his own warning, Duterte contradicted himself when he said in the same speech that the country could not afford more lockdowns.
"We have spent enormous amounts of resources to build our capacity to overcome this pandemic. We cannot afford more lockdowns," he said.
The Delta variant, which was first detected in India, is ravaging Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia.
The Philippines now has 119 known cases of the highly transmissible variant, but there are concerns that the actual number may be far higher, as
the Philippine Genome Center is only sequencing a small percentage of the positive cases. To prevent further local transmission of the Delta variant,
the government has imposed travel bans where it is widespread.

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