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MANILA BULLETIN According to DOT, the local police will file charges against the tourists from Metro Manila after confirming that they indeed presented swab tests with falsified dates of specimen collection. “The falsification was confirmed by verifying the QR code through the Lords Medical and Industrial Clinic which administered the test,” the DOT explained. The tourism department said the visitors were held by municipal health officers at the Lio Airport on February 16 for violating Republic Act 11322 which prohibits “tampering of records or intentionally providing misinformation.” The tourists were then sent to a local hotel for their seven-day quarantine. The DOT has been appealing to travelers to stop forging and faking travel documents after six tourists who entered Boracay Island were apprehended last January 21 for falsifying their reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests. ....
Two El Nido tourists to face complaints for tampering with swab test results DOT enablePagination: false (FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 20) The El Nido police in Palawan province will file charges against two female tourists from Metro Manila for submitting swab test results with falsified dates of specimen collection early this week, the Department of Tourism said Saturday. The falsification was confirmed by verifying the QR code through the Lords Medical and Industrial Clinic which administered the test, the department said in a statement. The visitors who were held by Municipal Health Officers at the Lio Airport on Feb. 16. violated the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act, which prohibits tampering of records or intentionally providing misinformation, the DOT added. ....