MANILA – The quarantine passes being issued in some cities and barangays for the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine should be distributed free of charge.
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the statement on Monday following numerous complaints where quarantine pass were being sold by barangay officials.
“Walang bayad ‘yang mga passes na ‘yan. Huwag po natin abusuhin ‘yan,” Nograles stressed. “‘Yang mga umaabuso ay sasampahan ng kaso.”
Some villages require households within their jurisdictions to use quarantine passes when buying food and other supplies to limit and monitor the number of persons going out of their homes.
Nograles added that neither President Rodrigo Duterte nor the government inter-agency task force on COVID-19 gave barangay officials authority to issue quarantine passes.
“Naglabas po ang DILG ng guidelines para sa quarantine passes, sila na rin po makikipag-coordinate sa mga barangay,” Nograles said./PN
