Reopening economy at ‘pre-COVID-19 levels’ not an option yet — Duterte

Reopening the economy at the “pre-COVID-19 levels” is not an option yet, President Duterte said Monday, citing how other nations experienced surge in infections by hastily lifting lockdown measures. SONA2020 | DJesguerraINQ

“To open up the economy to pre-COVID-19 levels at this time is not an option because whatever good it can produce will only be gobbled up or be outweighed by the bad it will generate,” Duterte

said in his fifth State of the Nation Address .Duterte further noted the recent uptick of coronavirus cases with the shift of most areas to the general community quarantine to aid the ailing economy.

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