DOH mulls recommending expanded travel ban from China as novel coronavirus threat persists

– The Department of Health said it will recommend a wider travel ban to include other provinces in China when the situation requires it.

Filipinos who are from Wuhan could go home but they will be subjected to a mandatory quarantine for 14 days, which is believed to be the incubation period of the 2019-nCoV. Philippine Ambassador to China Chito Sta. Romana earlier said about 30 to 50 Filipinos from Hubei have indicated they want to leave the province. Sta. Romana added there are 300 Filipinos in Hubei, half of them in Wuhan.

In 2014, the government used Caballo Island to quarantine Filipino peacekeepers from Liberia amid the outbreak of Ebola, a virus with high fatality rate.

They are very much welcome to use the structures they made on our territories in the Mischief Reef. Anyway they constructed it, so let them use it. For free!

OUSTLENI2020 pa rin! 🤣

Why bother? Take them to Malacañan. If they can’t all be accommodated there, I bet there is space at Sotto’s residence, at Go’s, at Duque’s.

Wag sa fortmag. Leche. Who will defend this nation?

When is the PH gov't sending planes to bring our people home? How many Filipinos are currently in Wuhan, and the rest of China?

OUSTLENI2020 PLEASE

why not malacañang? 👊🏼💩

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