LOOK: LuzonLockdown brings clear skies to Metro Manila
are a welcome side effect to the ongoing enhanced community quarantine which has been ongoing since March 16.
The rumble of car engines and honking horns have been replaced by chirping birds in the morning while smog, which up until three weeks ago was synonymous with living in the metro, have all but disappeared, gifting residents with views previously thought long gone. Just last year, the country’s air quality was considered unsafe according to various reports and yet the last few weeks of vehicle-free roads, plane-less skies, and widespread closings of factories have already done much to improve the quality not just in the Philippines but in other parts of the world.
As people under the quarantine wait for everything to return to normal, air quality is something that hopefully remains the same as it is now.Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN NewsRoxas Boulevard on April 4, 2020.Rizal Park on April 4, 2020.EDSA on March 24, 2020.Ortigas on March 17, 2020.The intersection of EDSA and E. Rodriguez in Cubao, Quezon City on March 20, 2020.Joseph Manalo, ABS-CBN NewsSunset view of houses and buildings in San Juan, Makati and Manila on April 7, 2020.
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