{"id":1198052,"date":"2022-01-07T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198052"},"modified":"2022-01-07T19:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T00:05:27","slug":"philippines-manila-bans-unvaccinated-from-leaving-homes-duterte-threatens-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philippines-manila-bans-unvaccinated-from-leaving-homes-duterte-threatens-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: Manila Bans Unvaccinated from Leaving Homes, Duterte Threatens Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphilippines-manila-bans-unvaccinated-from-leaving-homes-duterte-threatens-arrest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP_21059768744458-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Metro Manila\u2019s government issued an edict this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b7ZW_eBNLjg\">forbidding<\/a> residents unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus from leaving their homes for non-essential reasons for an indefinite amount of time as part of the region\u2019s effort to contain a surging caseload of the disease, the <em>South China Morning Post&nbsp;<\/em>(<em>SCMP<\/em>) reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnvaccinated people living in or near the Philippine capital have been ordered to stay home,\u201d according to the Hong Kong-based newspaper. \u201cRules expanded on January 5 limit them to essential trips, such as to get food or to go to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Metro Manila, also known as the Philippines\u2019 national capital region, is home to nearly 13.5 million residents and contains 17 different cities, including Manila. The Metro Manila Council (MMC) passed a resolution on January 3 \u201curging the passage of local ordinances prohibiting unvaccinated individuals from going outside their residences, except for essential trips,\u201d the <em>Philippine Inquirer<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1535600\/mmda-orders-metros-unvaxxed-to-stay-home\">reported<\/a> on January 4.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution asked mayors of Metro Manila cities and municipalities \u201cto bar the unvaccinated from indoor and outdoor dining at restaurants and other food establishments, and from leisure or social trips to malls, hotels, sports, and other similar facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Metro Manila residents who have not received a Chinese coronavirus vaccination \u201care also prohibited from domestic travel via public land, sea and air transportation, except to buy essential goods and services such as food and water, for work or medical and health reasons,\u201d according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Philippines Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez expressed support on January 4 for Metro Manila\u2019s decision to \u201cimpose mobility limitations on the unvaccinated and grant privileges to the inoculated,\u201d the <em>Inquirer<\/em> observed.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines against the Chinese coronavirus currently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.trackvaccines.org\/country\/philippines\/\">offered<\/a> in the Philippines and worldwide are not \u201c100 percent effective\u201d in preventing transmission of the disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] will still get sick and have a vaccine breakthrough infection because no vaccine is 100% effective,\u201d the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/effectiveness\/index.html\">wrote<\/a> in a notice published by its website on December 23, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Benhur Abalos, the chair of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), told reporters on Tuesday the new movement restrictions on the unvaccinated are similar to those imposed during Manila\u2019s \u201cenhanced community quarantine [ECQ],\u201d which was the strictest form of coronavirus lockdown imposed by the Philippine federal government throughout 2020 and 2021. Abalos said Metro Manila\u2019s unvaccinated will be barred from leaving their homes as long as the region remains \u201cunder alert level 3 or higher against COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Metro Manila\u2019s pandemic task force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/04\/coronavirus-pandemic-freezes-philippines-presidential-election\/\">placed<\/a> the capital under alert level 3 on January 3, with the status expected to last through at least January 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestaurants, parks, churches, and beauty salons will open at lower capacities to limit mobility,\u201d Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s spokesman, Karlo Nograles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20211231-philippines-tightens-quarantine-rules-in-capital-over-omicron\">told<\/a> reporters of Metro Manila\u2019s level 3 restrictions on December 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn-person classes and contact sports are suspended,\u201d Nograles said at the time, adding, \u201clocalized lockdowns targeting specific buildings, streets, and neighborhoods will also be enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on January 6 he had advised Metro Manila police and security officials to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/philippines-duterte-threatens-people-not-vaccinated-covid-19-arrest-2419296\">arrest<\/a>\u201d unvaccinated residents if they are found outside of their homes for non-essential reasons during the strict lockdown period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuterte in an televised address to the nation said he was asking community leaders to look for unvaccinated people and make sure they were confined to their homes,\u201d Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he refuses, if he goes out his house and goes around the community, he can be restrained. If he refuses, the [police] captain is empowered now to arrest recalcitrant persons,\u201d Duterte warned.<\/p>\n<p>President Duterte infamously issued a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/04\/01\/philippines-duterte-tells-police-of-quarantine-violators-shoot-them-dead\/\">shoot-to-kill<\/a>\u201d order for people found violating strict stay-at-home orders during a months-long ECQ lockdown in Metro Manila in April 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Manila\u2019s government issued an edict this week forbidding residents unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus from leaving their homes for non-essential reasons for an indefinite amount of time as part &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}