MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday that he would want the still unused funds allocated under Bayanihan laws to pay for the quarantine expenses of Filipinos returning from abroad.
In his weekly taped public address, Duterte it was the least the government could do to ease the inconvenience of being quarantined, a mandatory measure to block the entry of more infectious COVID-19 variants, such as the more transmissible Delta variant.
Under government protocols, returning Filipinos are required to undergo a 10-day quarantine on arrival.
“Congress appropriated so much money for Bayanihan. I think that if there is residual there, it behooves upon the …
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