MANILA, Philippines — Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Ao does not yet see the need to impose stricter quarantine rules in the country as there is no evidence yet that the new COVID-19 strain from the United Kingdom has arrived in the country.
“Para sa akin, hindi pa naman kinakailangan na magkaroon tayo ng strict lockdown kasi wala pa naman tayong pruwebang nakapasok na dito,” he said in an interview on ABS-CBN’s TeleRadyo on Monday.
“I don’t see the need yet to impose a stricter lockdown because there is no evidence yet that the new strain has entered our shores.)
“Wala pa naman tayong tinatawag na transmission from that kind of strai…
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