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‘No right to resist’ quarantine under state of public health emergency – DOH
No individual has the right to refuse quarantine during a state of public health emergency, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
DOH Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire stated that resistance to quarantine during such a period will face appropriate sanctions and protocols.
The Philippines now has 10 confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV, including the country's first local transmission.
Vergeire explained that a state of public health emergency grants the government increased authority for necessary procedures.
The DOH had previously recommended the declaration of a public health emergency following the confirmation of the country's first case of localized COVID-19 transmission.
President Rodrigo Duterte has since agreed to and signed an executive order declaring this public health emergency.
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