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    Government imposes stricter screening of airline passengers


    Saturday, July 7, 2012

    MANILA -- Malacanang said on Saturday that the government is now implementing a stricter procedure in screening passengers at the country's international airports following an outbreak of a fatal respiratory syndrome affecting mostly children in Cambodia.

    Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said in an interview aired over government-run dzRB Radyo ng Bayan that the Department of Health (DOH) is currently monitoring the situation through its National Epidemiology Center.

    "That respiratory disease is now being checked," Lacierda said.
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