Experts urge the government to wait until COVID-19 transmission further slows before relaxing quarantine classifications in Metro Manila.
They note that while the virus reproduction rate is going down, hospital occupancy remains high.
Will current measures really be enough to keep the coronavirus at bay amid the spread of more transmissible variants?
Let's now go above and beyond the headlines with World Health Organization Country Representative Doctor Rabindra Abeyasinghe.

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