FILE PHOTO: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, wearing a face mask, presides over a meeting with members of the inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) in Malacanang Palace in Manila, April 8, 2020. (Photo by TOTO LOZANO / PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO DIVISION / AFP)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pledged to keep the economy afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic as his administration raced to secure vaccines enough for most of its adult population.
“We are sinking deeper and deeper,” Duterte said in a live-streamed briefing on Monday night. “We are trying our very best to keep us afloat.” The Southeast Asian nation’s gross domestic product contracted by 9.5% in 2020, the most since 1946.
The Philippines, which has the second-highest number of coronavirus infections…
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