“This announcement is FAKE. The government no longer uses quarantine levels such as ‘GCQ’ in favor of the Alert Level system, the Department of Health (DOH)’s official Facebook page said in a May 13 public advisory.
Their respective posts rehashed by netizens were all originally published on April 7 last year after the whole Luzon was first put under ECQ as part of the country’s efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The photos of people swimming and frolicking on the beach in the central and southern regions are misleading.
Teen pregnancies and child marriages have been pressing concerns in the Philippines but the pandemic and the lockdown intended to curb it aggravated the problems, officials and rights advocates say.
No such announcements have been made by the president nor the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Sa higit siyam na buwan ng community quarantine sa bansa, binalaan, binigyan ng mga tiket, at inaresto ng mga tagapagpatupad ng batas ang may 598,000 katao, na tinawag nilang "pasaway," dahil sa umano'y paglabag sa quarantine at health protocols na ipinag-utos upang mapigilan ang pagkalat ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
In more than nine months of community quarantine in the country, law enforcers have warned, given tickets to, and arrested about 598,000 persons, whom they call “pasaway,” for allegedly violating quarantine and health protocols meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
The "leaked email" that was the source of the information is fabricated. The UK.-based vlogger also made erroneous claims about vaccines and vaccination practices in the U.K.
A WHO official has clarified that they have not made any changes in their stance.
Road safety advocates shared some reasons why road crashes continue despite the lockdown.
