Today& #39;s https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇭" title="Flag of Philippines" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Philippines"> log (6:43 PM): Manila& #39;s lockdown is officially one of the world& #39;s longest.

“I don’t think we can afford to keep on extending the quarantine,” says @ProfRUM, “since this was only supposed to buy us time to contain the virus in the first place.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/12/coronavirus-update-us/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...

Other stuff in this log: @UPResilience Institute cited "alarming errors" in government data, including 500+ cases that were reclassified into different or nonexistent cities, a death that was retracted overnight, and conflicting data between local government and Health Dep& #39;t.

Meanwhile, over 50 organizations signed onto a petition proposing a comprehensive transport plan. The Move as One Coalition warned the public transport system is a "ticking timebomb" and reopening it as is could cost over $10 billion and endanger millions. https://twitter.com/AltMobilityPH/status/1259836805010149382?s=20">https://twitter.com/AltMobili...

Update: @DOHgovph and @thinkdatasci responded to the data discrepancies flagged by @UPResilience, saying corrections are being made and those errors were in "less than one percent of the whole data set."

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