Tag: mandatory quarantine

Pres. Duterte orders posting of 2 cops for each quarantine hotel to prevent ‘escapees’

  (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed putting two policemen in two shifts for each quarantine hotel on Tuesday night, Jan. 4, 2022. This is to ensure that there would be no more persons under quarantine escaping from their mandatory isolation amid a spike in COVID-19 cases suspected to be caused by the highly infectious Omicron variant. Duterte in a pre-recorded “Talk to the People” noted that hotel personnel do not have the police […]

Flying back to the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic: what to expect in the “new normal”

by Emily Manuel Contributor, Eagle News AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Eagle News) — With no end in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to join 391 stranded Filipino seafarers, workers, and tourists in a repatriation flight organized by the Philippine Embassy in the The Hague last July 3, 2020. KL 875 would take us from Amsterdam to Manila via Bangkok in approximately 15 hours and 45 minutes. – Check-in – Schiphol Airport stands eerily quiet. […]