MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday during his taped weekly briefing that he would not obey any court ruling on the matter of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Cebu province.
That was his reaction to the filing of Cebu-based lawyers of a petition before a court seeking to stop the 10-day quarantine period for returning Filipinos being enforced by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
“I don’t want to lock horns with the judiciary. I said I respect it. But there are times that, you know… the courts can function normally and maybe grant injunctions,” Duterte said, speaking partly in Filipino. “But thi…
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