Personnel of the City Hall's Business Permits and Licensing Office put a closure order on Berjaya on Thursday afternoon.
The closure also stemmed from the government guidelines that only DOT-accredited hotels are allowed to operate amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Camiña said. Berjaya Hotel was suspended following its failure to halt and report Gwyneth Chua, a returning Filipino from the United States, from skipping quarantine in December.as it vowed that it will not tolerate quarantine skippers and other health protocol violators. for violation of Republic Act 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act. Meanwhile, Berjaya Hotel cried foul over the serving of the closure order, saying it was without basis.
"Thirdly, we must be accorded due process and be allowed to explain before any penalty is imposed. We have not been given our day in court by the Makati City Hall," it said.
P13,200 penalty