Año to Cebu governor on OFW quarantine: Nat’l gov’t policies trump local laws

The policies of the national government prevail over local government ordinances, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año insisted during a Senate committee hearing on COVID-19 response on Tuesday, June 15.

Garcia spoke at the committee hearing to defend the provincial government’s different quarantine policies for returning Filipinos and overseas Filipino workers . Garcia has said that the prolonged quarantine put a financial burden on returning OFWs and RFs, and refused to implement the IATF's quarantine policies.

Duque said the reason for testing on the seventh day was because it takes an average of 5 to 14 days for the virus to become detectable by an RT-PCR swab test. “Hence, no amount of an executive ordinance can therefore defeat the power of the President rooted [in] a constitutional precedent, considering the Constitution is the fundamental and highest law of the land,” he added.ruling, “because...the ordinance or resolution is, in the first place, opposing the resolution that has been approved by the President.”Senator Richard Gordon supported Garcia’s position and said her custom quarantine and testing policy should be allowed.

“That’s precisely what the ordinance is for. It’s a policy, and an ordinance, within their jurisdiction,” Pangilinan added.

When it comes to power, may be..but planning effectively, seems it's the other way around😛.

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