MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte's chief of staff was brought to a hospital early Saturday shortly after she revealed in a press conference that she was going to be transferred to a correctional facility from the House of Representatives where she has been detained for contempt.

As of posting time, lawyer Zuleika Lopez is confined at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City after a check-up at the Veterans' Memorial Medical Center where she was brought by a police ambulance.

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