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FILE PHOTO: Filipino workers, including nurses applying to work in United Kingdom, attend a lecture at a review center for the International English Language Testing System or IELTS in Manila, Philippines, April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
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Philippines offers nurses in exchange for vaccines from Britain, Germany

The Philippines, which has among Asia’s highest number of coronavirus cases, has relaxed a ban on deploying its healthcare workers overseas, but still limits the number of medical professionals...

FILE PHOTO: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a speech in Quezon City, Philippines, July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez/File Photo
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Philippines' Duterte tells US 'you have to pay' if it wants to keep troop deal

Passengers wearing personal protective equipment for protection against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) queue at the check-in counters of Emirates airline, in Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 9, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
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Philippines to ban US travellers from 3 Jan.

The temblor, which was also felt in the capital region, also registered at magnitude 6.3 at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) Photo: Collected
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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes south of Philippines' Luzon island

Philippine Coast Guard conduct a rescue operation, after Typhoon Vamco resulted in severe flooding, in the Cagayan Valley region in northeastern Philippines, November 13, 2020. Mandatory credit PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD/Handout via REUTERS
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Vietnam braces for Typhoon Vamco, 53 dead in Philippines

Ten stranded Bangladeshis return from the Philippines
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Ten stranded Bangladeshis return from the Philippines

Philippines to ramp up coronavirus testing as Duterte warns of arrests
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Philippines to ramp up coronavirus testing as Duterte warns of arrests

A village officer dressed as the Star Wars character Darth Vader rides a small boat to deliver relief goods to residents in the flooded Artex Compound in Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines, May 4, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
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'Darth Vader' enforces lockdown in Philippine village

A soldier checks the body temperature of a health worker before entering a free shuttle service following the suspension of mass transportation to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, March 20, 2020/Reuters
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Philippines confirms 45 new coronavirus cases, bringing total to 307

For some, threat of arrest for those who violate the lockdown mirror aspects of martial law. Photo: Lisa Marie David/NurPhoto/Getty Images via Al Jazeera
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Philippines quarantines island of 57 million people