Republic of the Philippines
Province of Pangasinan
CITY OF ALAMINOS
OFFICE OF THE SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD
(Cont. Ord. No. 2021-17, enacted on 15th day of June, 2021)
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support to health and quarantine facilities, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, transportation and logistics, law enforcement, public works, protective service workers (police), cashiers in grocery and general merchandise stores, production and food processing workers, janitors and maintenance workers, agricultural workers, and truck drivers, and others as may be determined by the IATF.
d. Healthcare workers refer to those who deliverer health-related service or care which include physicians, nurses, hospital and clinic aides, barangay health workers, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, ambulance drivers and staff, laboratory technicians, and those who provide related or support service in hospitals, clinics, quarantine centers, and other health facilities;
e. Probable cases refer to persons with mild, severe, or critical symptoms whose test COVID-19 results are inconclusive as defined by the DOH;
f. Recovered cases refer to persons who tested negative to COVID-19 after treatment and declared as such by the DOH;
g. Repatriated Filipinos refer to citizens of the Philippines working abroad including Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who return to the Philippines, for reasons which include completion of employment, labor conflicts, medical causes, psychosocial problems, restrictive immigration policies, wars, and other similar cases. The term also includes the remains of Filipinos brought back to the Philippines;
h. Responders refer to officers, members, and employees of the police and armed forces, city and barangay offices, the local Public Order and Safety Office, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, Barangay Health Emergency Response Team, Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit, and other government employees deployed directly or indirectly to respond to COVID-19-related situations, or who perform functions that may cause potential exposure to COVID-19;
1. Service workers refer to persons who work in public or private establishments for essential services, which include food, water, banking and finance, utilities, medicine, security, maintenance and sanitation, and those who provide services under circumstances with high risk of exposure to COVID-19, which include administrative, security, maintenance and staff support to health and quarantine facilities; and
Suspect cases refer to individuals who show symptoms of influenza-like illness such as fever, tiredness and dry cough, those with travel history abroad and to areas with confirmed local transmission of COVID-19, and those with exposure to a confirmed case as defined by the DOH.
SECTION 4. Discriminatory Practices. - Notwithstanding proper enforcement of and compliance with the government's community quarantine protocols for public health emergencies, it is unlawful for any person, natural of juridical, to engage in the following discriminatory practices solely on the basis of COVID-19:
a. Failure to Give Asistance. No public official, healthcare worker, or healthcare institution shall refuse, fail, or neglect to give assistance to persons who are declared confirmed, suspect and probable cases of COVID-19 or any person suspected of having been exposed to and has recovered from COVID-19, including overseas Filipino workers, registered or otherwise;
b. Harassment or Assault. No person may verbally, physically, or psychologically harass, threaten or assault persons who are declared confirmed, suspect and probable cases of COVID-19, COVIDI-19 survivors, or any person suspected of having been exposed to COVID-19, repatriated OFWs, responders or service workers, or any of those persons enumerated under Section 3(b) of this Ordinance;
