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On Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte said that he wanted at least two police officers to be stationed in hotels that were being used as Covid-19 quarantine facilities. This was to prevent people from skipping their mandatory quarantine.

Hotels don’t have the power to stop people who have been quarantined from breaking rules, so Duterte said it only makes sense to give the job of stopping people who have been quarantined to government workers like police officers.

People who work at a hotel can’t be held responsible for enforcing quarantine rules, because only the government can do that.

Talk to the People: “The only thing that can stop them are government workers who have been put in the hotel.”

He then asked Eduardo Ao, the head of the Interior Department, if it was possible to have at least two police officers work two shifts at a hotel quarantine facility at the same time.

“What I want the government to do is…

Sir, could you bring some pulis to the hotels where the government is quarantined? Dalawang pulis in two shifts? What did he say?

When asked about the plan, Ao said he already talked about it with the Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief, General Dionardo Carlos.

Duterte, on the other hand, asked Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra if hotel owners could be held liable for letting people skip mandatory quarantines.

Those who break Republic Act (RA) No. 11332, which is called the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Concern Act, could be punished with a fine, prison time, or both.

There is a clause in there about not cooperating, and it looks like non-cooperation by certain groups that have a duty to respond to the pandemic could also be punishable, so that’s what I think.” People who are quarantined in a quarantined hotel, for example, can’t get around quarantine rules by leaving the hotel, Guevarra said.

However, he said hotel management can only come up with ways to keep people from breaking quarantine rules.

It’s not like they have the power to make people stop. They can only report if an occupant has broken the law. “Wala silang (They don’t have) the power to make people stop,” he said.

Police should take over the job of making sure people finish their mandatory quarantine period because hotel owners don’t have enough power.

In this case, “Yung (The) delegated power isn’t very clear that they can stop or bar or prohibit. Some of the text is missing. Yan is having a problem with his car. There isn’t enough law. Because that’s what’s going on. Why not give it to the police?

Duterte also asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to look into possible violations of quarantine protocols by people who arrive at the airport and go to hotels that are being used as quarantine facilities or people’s homes.

“There were a lot of reports because he was nakalusot.” Well, at least you can do a report and that would be separate from other things. I will ask the Secretary of Justice to look into reports that people have broken quarantine rules. The NBI is the only thing I can think of. To do this, I will ask the Secretary of Justice (the NBI) to do this, he told them.

On Monday, the PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) filed a case against a Filipina who broke quarantine rules when she came back from the US, her parents, her boyfriend, and five other people.

The CIDG says it found that Gwyneth Anne Chua checked into the Berjaya Hotel Makati on December 22 at 11:23 p.m. Later, she was seen in a bar and restaurant on December 23 and 25 and then returned to the hotel.

On December 26, Chua was found to have Covid-19 and spread it to about 15 people she was with.

She is in one of the isolation facilities in Metro Manila right now.

Berjaya Makati later apologized for not stopping the woman from leaving before the end of her quarantine period, but the hotel didn’t say how.

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