Nearly 200 people were injured during the raucous New Year celebrations despite President Rodrigo Duterte's order limiting the use of firecrackers, the Department of Health said on Monday.

The order signed in June restricted the noisy explosives to community fireworks displays in an attempt to curb the bloody merrymaking that leaves scores of Filipinos dead or injured each year.

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