The peso and stocks also fell amid lockdowns to disinfect offices. FMTNews
Duterte doesn’t have symptoms of the virus but has opted to undergo the test.
The central bank, finance department, the Senate and the Asian Development Bank will be shut from Thursday for cleaning, they said in separate statements. The Health Department said on Wednesday that a second person died out of the 49 confirmed cases in the Philippines. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez and Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade separately said they will be going on a quarantine after meeting with an infected person.
At least two senators will also go on isolation after a guest at a March 5 hearing was confirmed to be one of the country’s Covid-19 cases. It couldn’t be readily verified whether Dominguez, Tugade and the senators were exposed to the same person.
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