{"id":252591,"date":"2020-04-19T01:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252591"},"modified":"2020-04-19T01:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:14:43","slug":"pasig-adopts-manilas-anti-discrimination-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/19\/pasig-adopts-manilas-anti-discrimination-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasig adopts Manila&#8217;s anti-discrimination ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249867\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249867\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Saturday, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto posted a copy of the ordinance in his Twitter account, saying the Pasig local government has adopted the Anti Covid-19 Discrimination Ordinance of 2020 (Ordinance No. 8624) signed by Manila Mayor Isko Moreno on April 2, 2020. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VicoSotto\/photos\/a.1280942245297784\/2842764159115577\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VicoSotto\/\">Vico Sotto\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Pasig City has adopted Manila City&#8217;s ordinance which punishes any act of discrimination against patients screened for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), healthcare workers, volunteers, and other front-liners amid the virus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto posted a copy of the ordinance in his Twitter account, saying the Pasig local government has adopted the Anti Covid-19 Discrimination Ordinance of 2020 (Ordinance No. 8624) signed by Manila Mayor Isko Moreno on April 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Under \u201cAnti-Discrimination Due to Infectious Diseases Ordinance series of 2020\u201d, Pasig prohibits anyone from &#8220;committing any act which causes stigma, disgrace, shame, humiliation, harassment&#8221; amid the government efforts and emergency response to contain the spread of the deadly Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Under the ordinance, anyone is not allowed to discriminate &#8220;a person infected, under investigation or monitoring due to infectious diseases or emerging and re-emerging infectious disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city ordinance also punishes anyone who discriminates &#8220;public and private doctors, nurses, health workers, emergency personnel, volunteers, service workers who are assigned to hospitals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Covers all forms of discrimination, including on FB. Applies to all covid-related cases (positive or not) &amp; front-liners,&#8221; Sotto said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Pasig City has adopted Manila City&#8217;s ordinance which punishes any act of discrimination against patients screened for coronavirus disease &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-lade-jean-kabagani","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252592,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252591\/revisions\/252592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}