Police may use 'reasonable force' to identify, locate and quarantine Etihad Airways flight number EY 424 passengers who don't surface voluntarily

[Emily]

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Police may use 'reasonable force' amid MERS-CoV scare
By Kim Arveen Patria | Yahoo Southeast Asia Newsroom ? 16 minutes ago

If passengers of the flight taken by the Filipino nurse suspected with MERS-CoV refuse to surface, police may ?employ reasonable force,? a ranking official said.

The Philippine National Police is coordinating with the Department of Health to identify and locate the other 417 passengers of Etihad Airways flight number EY 424.
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Cops have also been advised to wear protective equipment, avoid close contact with persons that may be infected and wash hands thoroughly after each operation....

 

[Shannon Bennett]

Re: Police may use 'reasonable force' to identify, locate and quarantine Etihad Airways flight number EY 424 passengers who don't surface voluntarily

MERS-CoV scare: Search for 174 passengers intensified



By Tina G. Santos, Inquirer Bureaus
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:40 am | Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014


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Health authorities have opened a Facebook account, bought newspaper ad space for the names of 174 out of the 415 passengers of a flight from the Middle East who had yet to submit themselves as of Monday to nose-and-throat swab test for a deadly virus and enlisted the help of the police in tracing them.

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