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December 23, 2020
Tourists frolic during sunset in Boracay, Philippines, on October 26, 2018.
Reuters
As with just about every other destination reliant on tourism, the economy of the Philippine island of Boracay has been devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In August, Patrick Cuartero, a managing partner at cocktail bar Prisma Boracay, told the South China Morning Post that he wasn’t sure how long business owners on the island would be able to survive.
“I’ve already heard of many businesses shuttering. I’d only give it a few more months before things get critical,” he said.
Since then, the island, which has managed to remain Covid-free, has reopened to domestic visitors.