Duterte to ask DOJ if it’s legal to stop migration of health workers amid pandemic

President Rodrigo Duterte said that he would consult the DOJ on the legality of preventing health workers from migrating other countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. | KAguilarINQ

“We’ll have to meet again and consult… [DOJ] Secretary [Menardo] Guevarra whether or not it would be legal for us to just stop the migration of health workers,” Duterte said in a public address.“Please do not misunderstand me. I am making it clear now.

I do not want you to go there and come back in a coffin. That’s my only argument, if you may, because you are Filipinos and I love the lives of my countrymen,” he said, speaking partly in Filipino.so they could help the country in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

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