MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin Jr. on Saturday said health rules violators must be slapped with fines as he thumbed down law enforcers’ threat to use “yantok” (rattan sticks) to discipline the violators.
“Do what the superior races do—e.g. the Chinese. In Hong Kong and Singapore violators of health protocols are fined hundreds, even thousands of dollars,” Locsin said in a tweet
He was reacting to the Commission on Human Rights’ statement in response to the Joint Task Force COVID-19 Shield chief Lt. Gen. Cesar Hawthorne Binag’s threat to arm social distancing patrollers with rattan sticks to hit COVID-19 protocol violators.
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