CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A legislator here has called on health officials to install measures to ensure a deadly disease from China would not find its way to the country. Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, of this city’s second district, has issued such call following reports that two people infected by the bubonic plague died in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region recently. “We have to tighten our quarantine (measures) against Chinese coming from the affected region of China,” Rodriguez said. The Bureau of Immigration said a total of 3.12 million Chinese citizens entered the country from January 2016 to May 2018. Further, Rodriguez said the Chinese government must also request the World Health Organization to send its experts to China to help them contain the plague.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 17, 2019 07:07 UTC