MANILA, July 14 — Philippine authorities and police will carry out house-to-house searches for Covid-19 patients to prevent wider transmission, a minister said today, amid soaring death and infection numbers and some areas returning to a stricter lockdown. Interior Minister Eduardo Año urged the...
Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 09:36 PM MYTMANILA, July 14 — Philippine authorities and police will carry out house-to-house searches for Covid-19 patients to prevent wider transmission, a minister said today, amid soaring death and infection numbers and some areas returning to a stricter lockdown.
"We don't want positive patients to stay home in quarantine especially if their homes don't have the capacity," Ano told a news conference. Justifying the searches, Ano cited a 2019 law on disease reporting and surveillance. Interior Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said tracking down positive cases was necessary because some had absconded.
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