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Philippine capital returning to lockdown as virus surges

by Associated Press
| August 2, 2020 11:27 PM

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has agreed to place the capital and outlying provinces back under a lockdown after medical groups warned that the country was waging “a losing battle” against the coronavirus amid an alarming surge in infections.

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