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'Losing battle': Philippine doctors, nurses urge new Covid-19 lockdowns

Vendors and customers wear masks for protection against the coronavirus disease while making transactions at a market in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 21, 2020. [Reuters]

More than a million Philippine doctors and nurses, saying the country was losing the fight against Covid-19, urged President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday to reimpose strict lockdown in and around Manila.

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