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A Year in Lockdown in the Philippines: Timeline of the Pandemic and Conditions of Living under Quarantine Rules (Part 2.)

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2021, №2(51), 174-191

 
Annotation: The article examines the course of the spread of the coronavirus infection epidemic in the Philippines during the first year, 2020, from the moment of the first confirmed cases of infection to the present time. The author pays attention to how the epidemic developed from May to December 2020, what measures were taken by the country's national government to combat the coronavirus, in which tightly regulated framework people were forced to live. We are considering 4 types of quarantines that were introduced by the Philippine government in different regions of the country during the specified period.

Keywords: Covid-19, cases of infection, deaths, quarantine, employees, basic necessity goods, transport