“The government will not do a house-to-house search for COVID-19-positive individuals. This is a ruse created by critics of the administration.”
What Vera Files found
It was Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año, not “critics” of the administration, who said government authorities will go “house-to-house” to check compliance with home quarantine regulations.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Harry Roque (Presidential Spokesperson) made this claim around 15 July 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 15 July 2020. Its rating was “False”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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