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Photo taken on Jan 9, 2020, shows devotees standing outside Quiapo Church during the first fiesta mass, signaling the start of Traslacion 2021.

Released / Manila Public Information Office

 

MANILA, Philippines — The government is asking the public to suspend mass gatherings in light of a new surge in coronavirus infections which health authorities are assuming to be driven by the more infectious Omicron variant.

 

"We are appealing to suspend for now all mass gatherings, including the upcoming observance of the Traslacion," Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in Filipino during a televised Cabinet briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte.

 

The Traslacion is an annual procession for devotees of the Black Nazarene and has been scaled down since the pandemic hit in 2020.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/01/05/2151941/govt-appeals-suspend-masses-large-gatherings-amid-covid-surge

 

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