how covid 19,affects Philippines?
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COVID-19 affects philiphines in such a way that many people are dead and most of the are affected.
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COVID-19: Countering the Economic Contagion
Preventive steps to prevent infection may produce an economic crisis that risks exacerbating poverty, hunger, and health issues.
By Manuel M. Dayrit and Ronald U. Mendoza
March 24, 2020
COVID-19: Countering the Economic Contagion
Volunteers and government workers unload boxes of canned food to be distributed to families following the enhanced community quarantine aimed to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Manila, Philippines on March 24, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Aaron Favila
At the rate it is spreading across the world, COVID-19 has become a global nightmare. Since China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of a cluster of 41 patients with mysterious pneumonia on December 31, 2019, the world has seen COVID-19 cases balloon to 334,981 across 189 countries and territories, with 14,652 deaths, at the time of writing. In the Philippines, from the first case confirmed on January 30, 2020 (a 38-year-old Chinese national), COVID-19 cases have since shot up to 462 confirmed cases, with 33 deaths. Based on big data analysis, there is evidence of undertesting and under-reporting in the Philippines, raising concerns that undetected cases could number in the thousands