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Basilio Sepe/BenarNews The Philippine government on Tuesday acknowledged a spike in COVID-19 cases in the country, with more than 24,000 new infections over the past five days, but stressed that decisions to impose lockdowns would be left to local governments. The health department reported 4,437 infections on Tuesday, bringing the total to 631,320. It also recorded 11 deaths, bringing the toll to 12,848. “To those who said we need to impose a lockdown, the truth is we have granular localized lockdowns. We use a lockdown as an instrument to slow the spread … in a place where there is a high number of cases,” presidential spokesman Harry Roque told a virtual news conference. ....