Metro Manila to be placed on lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak

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More videos on Rappler: https://www.rappler.com/video Follow Rappler for the latest news in the Philippines and across the globe. "For Manila, some say 'We don't want to use that term,' but that's because you're afraid to call it a lockdown, but it's a lockdown. There is no struggle of power here, there is no fight here, no war. It's just a matter of protecting and defending you from COVID-19," President Rodrigo Duterte says in a mix of English and Filipino.

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