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The Philippines will exempt elderly people who have been fully vaccinated from stay-at-home orders to encourage more to get inoculated and help authorities meet Covid-19 immunisation targets, officials have said.
Recording nearly 1.3 million infections and more than 22,300 deaths, the Philippines is battling the second-highest Covid-19 caseload in the region, next to Indonesia.
Those UK economy numbers might be up, but the recovery isn’t equal across all sectors, with PA reporting that London’s Heathrow airport lost more than six million passengers in May compared with the same month in 2019.
Just 675,000 people travelled through the London airport last month, a 90% reduction on the total for May 2019.
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