Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia warned that hotels can be charged with kidnapping and illegal detention if they hold returning residents from abroad for more than three days.
Garcia made the warning on Monday after the COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force insisted on implementing its own protocols in the province.
The governor encouraged affected returning Filipinos to file criminal charges, adding that the Cebu provincial government will handle the administrative charges against those caught violating Ordinance 2021-04, as amended by Ordinance 2021-05. "I have issued this Executive Order warning everyone that those who shall violate the provincial ordinance, still enforced and in effect, may be subject to criminal charges," she said in a press conference.
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