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LOOK: Luzon lockdown brings clear skies to Metro Manila

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 08 11:39 PM

Clearer skies and better air quality are a welcome side effect to the ongoing enhanced community quarantine which has been ongoing since March 16. Read more »

LOOK: Luzon lockdown brings once buzzing Bay City to a standstill

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 08 08:15 AM

The sprawling, brightly lit area by the Manila Bay is now a shell of its former self as the virus-driven lockdown shut down businesses there. Read more »

LOOK: Local architects design Emergency Quarantine Facility for COVID-19 patients

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 01 11:44 PM

This type of Emergency Quarantine Facility can be built in just 4 to 5 days for roughly P350,000.  Read more »

A Quezon City parish's tangled battle to protect a poor community from COVID-19

Bernice Beltran, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 23 10:30 PM

As confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Philippines continue to rise, a parish priest races against time to protect informal settlers from the novel coronavirus--and then some.  Read more »

Sunday Connections amid Luzon Lockdown

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 23 01:38 PM

With the enhanced community quarantine now forcing people to stay at home, some churches are now using technology to reach out to their respective congregations. Read more »

SLIDESHOW: A Catholic priest's battle for 'KALINGA' amid coronavirus threat

Photos by Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 22 12:07 PM

A feeding center for the poor and homeless in Manila reopened on Saturday for a few hours before it was closed again by authorities for allegedly violating community quarantine rules. Read more »

Look: QC residents receive food packs as lockdown keeps daily wage earners home

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 21 04:17 PM

As the enhanced community quarantine all over Luzon continues, people around the metro are forced to stay at home to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. Read more »

PHOTO ESSAY: QC popsicle shop turns into homeless shelter amid Luzon Lockdown

Text and Photos by Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 21 01:24 PM

Here's an initiative that hopes would catch on with businesses and communities amid the enhanced community quarantine.Popburri, a Popsicle shop and restaurant in Quezon City, converts parts of its premises into a shelter for the homeless amid the island-wide lockdown aiming to curb the spread of COVID-19. Read more »

PHOTO ESSAY: Inside one family's coronavirus nightmare at Seattle-area nursing home

Text by Tim Reid and Joshua Schneyer, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 17 02:56 PM

The home was already dealing with the initial signs of what would soon become the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the United States. A week before, on Feb. 19, the facility had sent out a patient with respiratory problems for testing, followed by a second patient on Feb. 24. Life Care officials have said they initially suspected flu. Read more »

How COVID-19 quarantine changed people's lives

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 17 02:57 AM

As Metro Manila experienced its first workday under a community quarantine enforced by the national government to stop the spread of COVID-19, workers woke up to the reality of the situation. Read more »

LOOK: In San Pedro, Laguna, public cooperation in a time of COVID-19

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 16 08:07 PM

In the southern border of Metro Manila, authorities and commuters do their part to help stop the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus. Read more »

LOOK: Once bustling Cubao almost empty on first quarantine day

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 16 08:09 PM

A government directive restricting people's presence in public spaces left even the regularly crowded Cubao looking like a proverbial ghost town. Read more »

SLIDESHOW: World grinds to a virtual halt, as virus threat spreads

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 14 08:27 AM

From the beaches of Phuket to the café-strewn streets of Milan, destinations that are normally teeming with people have essentially been deserted. Read more »

Before the quarantine

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 14 12:18 AM

The Lugos are one of many families whose lives are expected to turn upside down with the monthlong "community quarantine" enforced in Metro Manila. Read more »

LOOK: Social distancing in the MRT

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 13 03:12 PM

The MRT -3 management announced on Friday the implementation of “social distancing” to address the concern. Regular train commuters had to queue for more than 1 hour to get into the trains as MRT limits entry of commuters to the platforms to avoid over crowding inside the coaches. The train operators also gave assurance that the coaches and train stations are regularly sanitized an infected for the riding public’s safety. Read more »

LOOK: Fewer people attend Baclaran novena amid COVID-19 scare

Photos by Elmarc Lim, Redemptorist VP New Media
Updated as of Mar 12 09:19 AM

Church attendance was noticeably low during the Wednesday Novena in the usually crowded National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Baclaran, Parañaque amid the coronavirus scare on March 11, 2020.  Read more »

LOOK: Kathryn Bernardo, Sarah Geronimo dazzle as PBA muses

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 09 03:30 PM

Kapamilya stars Kathryn Bernardo and Sarah Geronimo were among the muses at the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup opening ceremony on Sunday night at the Araneta Coliseum.  Read more »

LOOK: Fort Santiago exhibit shows portraits of World War II valor

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 04 03:56 AM

On this day 75 years ago, the Philippine capital saw the end of the monthlong Battle of Manila, which saw one of the fiercest and most brutal fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II and left Intramuros in ruins. Read more »

IN PHOTOS: Greenhills hostage-taking crisis

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 03 11:21 AM

On what was supposed to be just another regular Monday, the routine of shoppers and tenants of V-Mall in San Juan City was disturbed when shots suddenly rang out in the popular shopping center. Read more »

IN PHOTOS: 8 of Maria Sharapova’s career-defining moments

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 27 12:26 AM

After almost three decades and five Grand Slams, Maria Sharapova is retiring from tennis. Read more »