Two of the Philippines’ most popular tourist destinations, in addition to Boracay Beach, have partially reopened, attracting only a fraction of their own usual crowds given the continuing restrictions of coronaviruses.
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said Friday that 35 local tourists, seven of them from Manila, had arrived on the first day of the reopening of Boracay, a central island that stands out for its fine white sand, blue waters and beautiful sunsets. Spaces with low-level quarantine designations can simply disappear, subject to guarantees, adding evidence that a host is free of coronavirus.
The mountain of the city of Baguio, a safe summer shelter for its pine trees, cool breeze and picturesque views of the highlands, has been reopened to tourists only from its northern region, he told ABS-CBN News.
Despite the pressing desire to revive the tourism industry, this is being done “very slowly, cautiously,” he said, adding that mayors and governors deserve to approve the reopening of tourist sites. “You have to be careful,” he says.
As in the maximum number of countries, the pandemic has devastated the tourism industry in the Philippines, which now has the highest shown coVID-19 instances in Southeast Asia with more than 314,000, with 5,504 deaths.
In progress in the Asia-Pacific region:
– COVID-19 deaths in India are approaching 100,000 and another 1,095 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. approximately 1. 4 billion more people and more than 6. 3 million cases of coronavirus infection, however, experts say it may not have many deaths. On Friday, the ministry also reported 81,484 new cases of infection. The total number of cases was more than 1 million in mid-July to more than 6 million in less than two and a half months. New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru are the main urban infection centers, representing one in seven cases shown and one in five deaths in the country.
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