Manila Bay’s dolomite beach had to be closed for an hour early Sunday after a throng of about 4,000 people raised fears of the situation becoming a Covid-19 super-spreader event. Jacob Meimban Jr., deputy executive director of the Manila Bay Coordinating Council, said authorities have extended by up to 300 meters the area that is open to the public to avoid overcrowding. The Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the proponent of spreading crushed dolomite rocks on the beach, has said that 25,000 people visited the beach in the first week that it opened.

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