As the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to ravage countries all over the world, the Philippines is among those that went to unprecedented levels of crisis mode and faced enormous difficulties in getting the virus under control. The start of the year 2020 was inauspicious for the Philippines as COVID-19 follows the Taal Volcano eruption in Batangas province in January which displaced around 300,000 people.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Philippines–China Relations