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Lawyer-councilor Herbert S. Dilig, author of proposed ordinance SDO. No. 1108, said the policy should pave the way to easily identify individuals who came from outside the Palawan province.
ICF superintendent Raul Levita said Thursday that three of the six direct contacts are employees of the penal farm and expected to report to their work duties the day after the release of the result. While the other three direct contacts are immediate family members of the employee.
A resolution authored by Board Member Cherry Pie Acosta pointed out that since the passage of the provincial ordinance, none of the municipalities have passed their own measures or adopted the same.
The ordinance was approved on third and final reading Monday. It prohibits and penalizes discriminating healthcare workers, suspected, probable, confirmed COVID-19 patients as well as repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
Board member Maria Angela Sabando, author of an approved resolution, said the LSIs and the ROFs have been the subject of social media hate simply because some of them have contracted the dangerous coronavirus disease.