Manila Bulletin
2 lawyers ask Cebu City court to junk IATF Resolution 114
Two Cebu-based lawyers have filed a petition at the Cebu City Regional Trial Court challenging the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) Resolution 114.
The lawyers argue that Cebu Provincial Ordinance 2021-04, which allows home quarantine after a negative swab test upon arrival, should supersede the IATF's protocol.
IATF-MEID Resolution 114, as amended by Resolution 116, requires a 14-day quarantine, with the first ten days in a facility, and an RT-PCR test on the seventh day.
The petition seeks a temporary restraining order and injunction to cease the implementation of Resolution 114 within Cebu province.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque, as chairman of the IATF-MEID, is named as a respondent in the case.
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