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Shop owner Mary Jane Villegas arranges a Valentines flower arrangement.
Shop owner Mary Jane Villegas arranges a Valentine's Day flower arrangement.AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Valentines flower arrangement
A Valentine's Day flower arrangement.AP Photo/Aaron Favila
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A florist in the Philippines is selling a special Valentine’s Day bouquet that says “I love you, and please don’t get the coronavirus.”

The “anti-nCoV bouquet” comes with flowers, sanitizer, soap, toothpaste, a mask and gloves in place of chocolates and candies.

Flower shop owner Mary Jane Villegas said she made the bouquet in part because she is scared of how fast the virus is spreading.

“I thought of this…so that people can have an idea that flowers are not the only thing you can give during Valentine’s,” Villegas said.

The unique response to the coronavirus — recently named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization — has proven to be popular among local Manila residents.

“I chose this bouquet to avoid getting the virus … This is also hygienic, and we can avoid the virus,” said customer Mark Richard Gigantone.

“I want my gift to be different, I always give flowers to my wife. This is unusual and it also provides protection from the virus.”

The Philippines has three confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including one death, which marked the first reported related fatality outside of China.

The coronavirus has infected over 45,000 people across the world, and the WHO is treating it as “public enemy number one,” and even more dangerous than terrorism.

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