The government's pandemic task force has issued a provisional approval to the professional licensure examinations scheduled this July to September 2021.
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has imposed certain conditions, including the strict observance of health and safety protocols as well as community quarantine level of concerned areas, for the conduct of the forthcoming licensure tests.
"On the request of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), the IATF provisionally approved the conduct of professional licensure examinations for July to September 2021," Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said in a statement.
The upcoming licensure exams, Roque said, will be "subject to conditions, such as PRC’s health and safety protocols and the observance of minimum public health standards, the issuance of the PRC-DOH-PNP guidelines, and the community quarantine classification of the concerned areas."
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