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Amid rumors, DOH says no mpox lockdown
The Philippine Star
|June 01, 2025
The Department of Health (DOH) shut down rumors of a planned lockdown amid mpox cases monitored across the country, calling a viral social media post indicating a lockdown by June 10 as "fake."
"There is no plan to have a lockdown. We need first to declare an outbreak if there is a need, but there is no outbreak (of mpox). Lockdown is a very extreme measure; we used it during the pandemic. Mpox has to become a pandemic, which it is not," DOH Secretary Ted Herbosa said at a press briefing yesterday.
"Lockdown does not work for mpox because it is (transmitted through) skin-to-skin contact, so if there is a lockdown, there could be more skin-to-skin contact," he added.
Herbosa advised the public to be more discerning of information on social media.
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