Rest of World News: MANILA: The Philippine government extended a lockdown by another week Monday after an alarming spike in coronavirus infections continued to surge and .
President Rodrigo Duterte placed Metropolitan Manila and four outlying provinces, a region of more than 25 million people, under lockdown last week as daily infections breached 10,000. Roman Catholic leaders shifted Holy Week and Easter events online after all public gatherings, including in places of worship, were temporarily banned.
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