Individuals who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 will only be requested to go home and will not be arrested, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año clarified Monday. Read it here:
Meanwhile, the Philippine National Police also reported that 85 areas across the country are under granular lockdown —76 in the National Capital Region, five in Mimaropa, two in Cagayan Valley, and one each in Ilocos and the Cordillera Administrative Region.
Many business leaders, medical groups, and organizations have been pushing for the restrictions to be implemented nationwide amid the spike in infections and the threat of the Omicron coronavirus variant. He, however, said the arrest of the defiant unvaccinated people by barangay officials should only be a “last resort’’ and must be enforced “within the bounds of the law”.“Yes, they can now be apprehended there because they were caught in the act of being in the possession of fake documents,’’ said Año.
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