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You Are Here:Home → 2021 → March → 17 → A year into lockdown, the powerful get away with violating protocols
A year into lockdown, the powerful get away with violating protocols
BY REIN TARINAY
A year into the pandemic, double standards on how minimum health standards and quarantine protocols are observed remains evident, with government officials and personalities breaching protocols and getting away with it while nearly 600,000 Filipinos, mostly poor, have been warned, ticketed, fined, and charged over quarantine violations.
News reports revealed that the renewed stricter lockdown implementation has led to the arrests of almost 50,000 Filipinos in the first week of March 2021 alone. This amid another surge in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases, vaccination roll out for health workers and the poor still delayed, social protection for displaced workers wanting, and the country’s testing capacity and contact tracing remaining weak.
Two El Nido tourists to face complaints for tampering with swab test results DOT
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 20) The El Nido police in Palawan province will file charges against two female tourists from Metro Manila for submitting swab test results with falsified dates of specimen collection early this week, the Department of Tourism said Saturday. The falsification was confirmed by verifying the QR code through the Lords Medical and Industrial Clinic which administered the test, the department said in a statement.
The visitors who were held by Municipal Health Officers at the Lio Airport on Feb. 16. violated the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act, which prohibits tampering of records or intentionally providing misinformation, the DOT added.
A Philippine Airlines official has guaranteed the capability of ground crew and check-in counter staff when it comes to detecting fake travel documents and certificates, especially swab test certificates.
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Prosecutor junks charges vs 10 Marikina relief volunteers
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – The Marikina Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the charges against the 10 relief volunteers who were arrested on May 1 last year.
Collectively called as Marikina 10, the relief volunteers were accosted by the police while conducting a feeding program at Barangay Industrial Valley Complex, Marikina City. They were detained but were eventually released for further investigation.
In a resolution dated Oct. 20, 2020 but was released to the public Feb. 17, the complaints for violation of Batas Pambansa 880 or the Public Assembly Act for holding public assembly with the proper permit, Article 151 of the Revised Penal Code or disobedience to authorities, and violation of Republic Act 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events