By Gabriela Baron

A supermarket guard lost both her job and her rented apartment after she went home one day with a fever.

According to a report on 24 Oras, Milagros was not allowed to enter her apartment because a thermal scan showed her temperature was more than 36 degrees Celsius.

Milagros then went to Ospital ng Maynila to have herself checked. Her temperature at the hospital was 36 degrees, meaning she didn’t have a fever.

When she went back to her apartment, Milagros found that her things had been gathered and placed in a garbage bag and she could no longer get inside.

Milagros went back to the Ospital ng Maynila and slept at a waiting shed.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) helped Milagros to go home to her loved ones in Antipolo. However, she could no longer go to work because of the distance between Antipolo and her workplace in Manila.

Ateneo Human Rights Center and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines earlier announced that they will provide legal assistance to those who have suffered discrimination because of COVID-19.

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