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Burj Khalifa's light display reminds people to stay at home in Filipino, other languages amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Cherry Sun
Published March 26, 2020 7:32 PM PHT
Updated March 27, 2020 11:01 AM PHT

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World's tallest building Burj Khalifa reminds people to stay at home in Filipino and several other languages amid the COVID-19 pandemic through its display of light.

World's tallest building Burj Khalifa reminds people to stay at home in Filipino and several other languages amid the COVID-19 pandemic through its display of light.

The Burj Khalifa that towers from Dubai, UAE, sends the friendly reminder in a spectacle of light flashing on its façade. A video posted as an Instagram story showed its message translated into Filipino.

“Manatali sa bahay,” it read.

The reminder to stay home was also seen in several other languages including Spanish, German, Japanese, Swahili, and Arabic.

The COVID-19 outbreak has been characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020.

As of writing, the interactive site COVID-19 visualizer reports 486,702 COVID-19 cases across the globe.