MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Wednesday clarified that there will be no “house-to-house” search for coronavirus patients, and that authorities will only transfer reported patients who are unable to have a proper home quarantine from their homes to government quarantine facilities. They will not go house-to-house,” Roque said. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said police authorities along with local government units will go house-to-house for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms, adding that home quarantine is no longer allowed if their houses are ill-equipped as isolation facilities. “Now, we prefer that the asymptomatic (patients) and the mild cases voluntarily surrender and isolate themselves in isolation centers. Earlier, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, co-chair of the government’s COVID-19 task force, earlier discouraged home quarantine for mild COVID-19 patients to prevent further transmission of the disease.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 15, 2020 01:41 UTC