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Day 2 of NCR-wide ECQ sees nearly deserted streets

An ice cream vendor crosses an almost empty street in Marikina City on Saturday, the second day of a two-week long enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila as part of efforts to curb the COVID-19 Delta variant. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Saturday said the country will continue to see relatively high COVID-19 infections in the coming days likely due to the variant, adding that tougher lockdowns would only "delay further increase," but the growth of infections would not stop. 

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