The Philippines, full of Covid-19 cases, turned on Tuesday September 7 and announced a maintenance of the containment of the capital Manila, 24 hours after announcing a lifting of this measure for more than 13 million inhabitants.

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The government had planned to move on to "localized confinements" in the capital region from Wednesday, despite the record number of new contaminations due to the Delta variant, more contagious.He provided that travel prohibitions apply to the scale of a house, a building, a street or a neighborhood, rather than the agglomeration.This would have made it possible to lighten the restrictions weighing on the rest of the region, which represents a third of the country's economy, by authorizing companies to reopen their doors and encouraging local tourism.

An exsangue economy

But the government changed foot on Tuesday, explaining that the current rules would remain in force until September 15, or until an experimentation of localized confinements is implemented.He did not explain the reasons for this change of course, which constitutes a blow for the restaurants of the Manila region which were preparing to reopen for the first time since August 6.Beauty salons will also have to keep the curtain lowered and the churches will not be able to welcome faithful for the offices.

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President Rodrigo Duterte had recently declared that the country could not afford new confinements.Since the start of the pandemic, confinements and restriction measures have left the Philippine exsangue economy, millions of unemployed people, and many families are now living in the greatest precariousness.

With only 19% of the fully vaccinated eligible population and hospitals filling up at high speed, the authorities assure having no choice but to decree confinements to slow down the spread of the virus.The Philippines crossed the threshold of 2 million cases last week and record more than 34.000 deaths related to COVVI-19.