ILOILO CITY—Six tourists from Metro Manila were removed from their hotel on Boracay Island and sent on quarantine after five of them were found to have submitted false coronavirus test results.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Pablito, Malay police chief, said police would file criminal complaints against the tourists for falsification of public documents and violating Republic Act No. 1332, which required reporting of contagious diseases.
Lawyer Selwyn Ibarreta, administrator of the Caticlan port in Malay, the Aklan town that has jurisdiction over Boracay, said only one of the six tourists had submitted genuine results of reverse transcription polymerase chain…
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