A barangay health worker prepares Q Band or Quarantine Band for distribution to some Caloocan residents undergoing quarantine at Barangay Grace Park in Caloocan City on Sept 8, 2020. - PDI
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The government will strictly disallow home quarantine for Covid-19 patients, Interior Secretary Eduardo Ano said on Tuesday (Sept 8). In a television interview, Ano said the government planned to implement the new policy “within the week.”
Ano said the joint memorandum of the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government that allows home quarantine for mild and asymptomatic patients and those without underlying conditions who have their own rooms and bathrooms would be amended to make way for the new policy.
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