The government has backpedaled from allowing mass gatherings, including religious and work-related assemblies, in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ), saying the ban on these activities stays.
HOLDING ON A boy wearing an improvised face mask made from a discarded plastic water bottle clings to his father, who is wearing a cloth face mask, in San Andres, Manila on Friday. Medical frontliners conducted community rapid testing for the coronavirus there due to its growing number of confirmed cases. PHOTO BY RENE H. DILAN