{"id":243948,"date":"2020-02-03T23:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T04:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243948"},"modified":"2020-02-03T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T04:19:36","slug":"stop-the-sinophobia-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/03\/stop-the-sinophobia-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the sinophobia: Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the DSWD Central Office in Quezon City on January 29, 2020. TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night called on the public to refrain from sowing hate against Chinese nationals after two cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) were confirmed in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina has been kind to us. We can only also show the same favor to them. Stop this sinophobia,\u201d Duterte said in a press conference in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/p>\n

Duterte said it was \u201cnot good\u201d to show hostility or aversion to Chinese nationals simply because it is where the virus originated from.<\/p>\n

He also frowned upon calls for Chinese to return to their homeland.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know it is not only a case of bad taste but it is not good for us Filipinos to be saying that.\u00a0Ngayon<\/em>\u00a0(Now) they are blaming the Chinese\u00a0na galing sa<\/em>\u00a0(coming from) China. It could always incubate in some other places. It happened in China, at least the first. But that is not the fault of anybody. Not the Chinese, not the Filipino, no one,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that there were \u201cso many\u201d Filipinos working and living in China. Nearly 300,000 Filipinos are in China, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).<\/p>\n

\u201cBut even if there are none, we are a community of nations. We cooperate,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can assure the Chinese government that we too can help,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Duterte imposed a temporary travel ban on all visitors coming from China and its special administrative regions Hong Kong and Macau.<\/p>\n

He also banned Filipinos from traveling to China, Hong Kong, and Macau.<\/p>\n

Asked if his temporary travel ban would extend to other countries, Duterte said his decision would depend on the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will go by the recommendations that will be given out by the WHO. We cannot act on our own,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Currently, the Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed two cases of nCoV in the country, a 38-year old woman from Wuhan in Hubei province, China and her companion, a 44-year-old man.<\/p>\n

DOH said the male patient was the first reported death due to the deadly virus outside of China.<\/p>\n

The 2019-nCoV, which originated in Wuhan in Hubei province, China, has infected over 17,000 people and killed around 362 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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