‘Swim in canal’ as punishment for quarantine violators in Davao? Here's why you should be concerned about it

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In Davao City, nine individuals were reportedly made to swim in a filthy drainage canal after they violated the imposed curfew hours and the liquor ban set amid the community quarantine.

said that the authorities involved will face criminal and administrative charges for the incident.

“Sasampahan natin ng criminal at administrative sanction, kasama rin ang barangay official o kung sino man ang sangkot sa isyu na ito,” she said.The punishment’s potential health impacts didn’t escape some Filipinos who called out the nature of the sanction and how it could put an individual’s health at risk.pointed out that curfew hours are imposed to “lessen the risks of getting infection” since it aims to minimize the movement of the public.

“Didn’t they realize how inhumane and how counterproductive this is? Didn’t they realize that the curfew aims to lessen the risk getting an infection? Kaninong matalinong idea ang palanguyin sila sa imburnal, which guess what, houses tons of bacteria,” heCabajar’s comment has since earned more than 7,900 retweets and more than 30,000 likes on the microblogging platform.

“We’re in the middle of a pandemic, having a clean and healthy body is the top priority, yet here you are, exposing people to a whole lot of germs or even viruses because they violated protocols! WTF??” another FilipinoA drainage canal is an artificial canal built to drain water from an area with no natural outlet for precipitation accumulation. It is built to remove surface or sub-surface water from infrastructures and prevent waterlogging.

from such waters include malaria, schistosomiasis and lymphatic filariasis. These water-borne diseases are caused by bacteria, viruses and parasities such as protozoa and helminths.noted that filthy drainage canals could be an occluded source of sanitation-related outbreaks which include multi-resistant bacteria.

 

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